concentration camp

English - Turkish

Definition of concentration camp in English Turkish dictionary: toplama kampı; temerküz kampı; toplama düşergesi
concentration camps: toplama kampları

English - English

Definition of concentration camp in English English dictionary: A camp or premises in which persons considered to be undesirable by those who control it are hidden away, mistreated, and even killed; A camp where large numbers of persons—such as political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees—are detained for the purpose of concentrating them in one place; A situation wherein crowding and extremely harsh conditions take place; a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions; A concentration camp is a prison in which large numbers of ordinary people are kept in very bad conditions, usually during a war. a prison where political prisoners and other people who are not soldiers are kept and treated cruelly, especially during a war. Internment centre established by a government to confine political prisoners or members of national or minority groups for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment. The prisoners are usually selected by executive decree or military order. Camps are usually built to house many people, typically in highly crowded conditions. Countries that have used such camps include Britain during the South African War, the Soviet Union (see Gulag), the U.S. (see Manzanar Relocation Center), and Japan, which interned Dutch civilians in the Dutch East Indies during World War II. A variation, called a "reeducation camp," was widely used in China during the Cultural Revolution and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Most notorious were the death camps of Nazi Germany, including Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Treblinka; internment camp in which people are imprisoned and often tortured; any of a number of camps set up by the German Nazis during World War II for holding Jews and other peoples before killing them
concentration camps: plural form of concentration camp
Buchenwald concentration camp: {i} very large Nazi concentration camp established in 1937 in the Buchenwald forest