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[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 22 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Your understanding of the term concentration camp – which you might exclusively associate with Nazi Germany – is erroneous. I wasn't exactly sure what a concentration camp was this morning, and I did something really crazy: I looked it up online using a relatively trustworthy source (bold is mine for the tl;dr):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.[1]

The term "concentration camp" and "internment camp" are used to refer to a variety of systems that greatly differ in their severity, mortality rate, and architecture; their defining characteristic is that inmates are held outside the rule of law.[2] Extermination camps or death camps, whose primary purpose is killing, are also imprecisely referred to as "concentration camps".[3]

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