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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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German authorities under General Lothar von Trotha unleashed a brutal retaliation, fuelled by racial ideology and including mass killings, forced labour and concentration camps.
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Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 May 2024
One of them replicated the Jasenovac concentration camp in what is now Croatia where tens of thousands of Jews, Romani, and Serbs were murdered during World War II.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 July 2024
When her father was caught stealing potatoes to feed their family, he was sent to the Janowska concentration camp adjoining the ghetto, where he was killed, said Oberrotman, an only child.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
As the Soviet army approaches, the prisoners are put on a forced march to the concentration camp at Mauthausen, where Stephen will spend the next year.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
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Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 May 2024
One of them replicated the Jasenovac concentration camp in what is now Croatia where tens of thousands of Jews, Romani, and Serbs were murdered during World War II.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 July 2024
When her father was caught stealing potatoes to feed their family, he was sent to the Janowska concentration camp adjoining the ghetto, where he was killed, said Oberrotman, an only child.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
As the Soviet army approaches, the prisoners are put on a forced march to the concentration camp at Mauthausen, where Stephen will spend the next year.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
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