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concentration camp

[kon-suhn-tray-shuhn kamp] / ˌkɒn sənˈtreɪ ʃən ˌkæmp /


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Four years ago a 101-year-old concentration camp guard was given a five-year jail term for complicity in murder at Sachsenhausen.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

It later included the Hirtenberg subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp -- Austria's second-largest women's camp.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

More than 35 years after surviving Auschwitz, Edith Eva Eger returned to the Nazi concentration camp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

I often use the Nazi example because it’s almost the only concentration camp system people know, even though there have been a bunch of different ones.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026

However, when the other saboteurs heard the rumor that Burger had spent time in a concentration camp, no one trusted him.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple


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