internment

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Before their internment, most of them came from poverty or jail before being enticed, or tricked, into fighting for Russia as mercenaries or on the promise of release from prison.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

By 1940, new policies ordered all German nationals - Jewish or not - into internment camps.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

I’m not sure I knew internment had happened, or understood its scale, before I reached adulthood.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025

Today, under the law of war, civilians are supposed to have protections, including against citizenship- or identity-based detentions or internment, as well as against forced repatriation.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2025

Yossarian was the squadron’s leading authority on internment and had already begun plotting an emergency heading into Switzerland on every mission he flew into northernmost Italy.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller