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List of concentration and internment camps — This is a list of Internment and Concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is assigned to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp … Wikipedia
CAMPS — (Concentration and Extermination). The English language term concentration camp is commonly used to describe a wide number of places of internment created by Nazi Germany, which served a variety of functions and were called by different names:… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Death train (disambiguation) — Death train may refer to: Death train, alternative name for Holocaust train, used to transport Jews to Nazi concentration and extermination camps Death Train, a novel by Alastair MacNeill, based on the UNACO screenplay by Alistair MacLean Death… … Wikipedia
Concentration camps in France — German soldiers posting notices for refugees and prisoners of war in France, May 1940 There were internment camps and concentration camps in France before, during and after World War II. Beside the camps created during World War I to intern… … Wikipedia
Concentration Camps — Before their use as the internment and death camps built by Nazi Germany starting in 1933, concentration camp was a term coined by Lord Kitchener for internment centers developed as a counter to Boer guerrilla tactics in the final stages of… … Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914
DEATH MARCHES — DEATH MARCHES, name given by prison inmates and retained by historians to the forced evacuations on foot of concentration and slave labor camps in the winter of 1944–45. With the onset of winter and Allied armies closing in on the Nazi… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland (1919–1924) — Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland that existed during 1919 1924 housed two main categories of detainees: *personnel of the Imperial Russian Army, and Russian civilians, captured by Germany during World War I; and *Soviet… … Wikipedia
Sisak children's concentration camp — was a concentration camp during World War II, set up by the Croatian fascist Ustaše government for Jewish, Roma and Serbian children. The camp was located in Sisak, Croatia. It was part of the Jasenovac cluster of concentration and death camps… … Wikipedia
Concentration camps — These camps are distinguished from the death camps, which had as their primary purpose the murder of Jews and other targeted victims of the Nazis. The concentration camps were originally organized to incarcerate political opponents of the Nazi … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
concentration camp — a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., esp. any of the camps established by the Nazis prior to and during World War II for the confinement and persecution of… … Universalium
