Camps established by the Nazi regime, which eventually became a major instrument of terror, control, punishment, and killing performed through both deliberate means as well as attrition by hunger and/ [..]

1901, "compound for noncombatants in a war zone" (see concentration); a term for a controversial idea in the second Boer War (1899-1902), and the term emerged with a bad odor. The concentrat [..]

enclosed, guarded area where political prisoners are kept. Concentration camps are most associated with Nazi work and extermination camps during World War II.

Camps established at the beginning of the Nazi regime to for the imprisonment and forced labour of "enemies" of the Reich, political and "anti-social," as well as J [..]

A term used by many Nisei during the war to describe interior settlements. At their peak in the spring of 1943 these camps held 12,177 Japanese Canadians. This figure does not include an additional 69 [..]

, Any internment camp for holding "enemies of the Third Reich." The construction of concentration camps began almost immediately after Hitler gained power in Germany. There were seve [..]

Facilities in which war or political prisoners are confined.