Concentration camps
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Concentration camps
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029589
- info:lc/authorities/sh85029589
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85029589#concept
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- Death camps
- Detention camps
- Extermination camps
- Internment camps
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Sources
- found: Am. heritage dict. (concentration camp: a camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions)
- found: Random House (death camp: a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed)
- found: LC database, Jan. 24, 1997 (titles: death camp; death camps)
- found: New Encycl. Brit., 1992 (Extermination camp: German Nazi concentration camp that specialized in the mass annihilation of unwanted persons in the Third Reich and conquered territories ... Prisoners who were deemed able-bodied were initially used in industrial-labour battalions or in the tasks of genocide until they were virtually worked to death)
- found: Encycl. Jud., 1971 (Camps, Concentration and extermination: Nazi mass detention and liquidation centers for civilians imprisoned for political, security, and racial reasons)
Change Notes
- 2006-07-11: new
- 2006-08-25: revised
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