单词 | concentration camp |
释义 | concentration campnoun : a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard —used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners The Nazi soldiers hauled [Mordechai] Strigler off to a concentration camp, and carved swastikas into his cheeks and forehead with a razor blade. Over the next five years, he was sent from one concentration camp or slave-labor camp to another. David RemnickShe ended up dying in a concentration camp, just a few months before she would have been liberated. Marilyn ReynoldsThe V2 killed thousands of British civilians while 20,000 concentration camp inmates died as slave labourers during its manufacture in the closing stages of the second world war. Anna Tomforde et al. see also death camp concentration camp nounas in prison camp a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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