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Non-Medical Public and Private Facilities > Correctional Facilities > Prisons > Concentration Camps
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Problems > Incarceration > Prisons > Concentration Camps
Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Incarceration > Prisons > Concentration Camps
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Incarceration > Prisons > Concentration Camps

Preferred term

Concentration Camps  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Camp, Death
  • Camp, Internment
  • Camps, Death
  • Camps, Internment
  • Death Camp
  • Death Camps
  • Internment Camp
  • Internment Camps

Note

  • specify geographic location if pertinent

Scope note

  • A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under PRISONS 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003209

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