How many concentration camps were there in the UK?

Answer 1

There were camps to concentrate people on both sides during WWII, in German and Japanese controlled areas, as well as in Soviet Union, North America and United Kingdom.

While the Nazi concentration camps not only included prisoners of war and delinquents, they also were used to have civilians for slave labour or extermination, mainly Jews, Poles and other ethnic groups, political dissidents and handicapped people etc.

The hundreds of UK camps were probably amongst the best regarding to the Genève convention and other international laws, with a high survival rate, much better than Soviet. The camps weren't generally used for political prisoners.

The USA, by contrast, interned lots of Japanese born people in concentration camps, which was much debated as unconstitutional.

Note: the British invented the term "concentration camp" for keeping African people detained, but the Germans adopted it from 1933 and made the most use of the word. The Allies preferred to talk about camps for POW, but there was slave labour in many of them, and complaints about bad treatment of the detainees.

Answer 2

Britain was not occupied by the Nazis. However, in the Channel Islands, which were occupied, there was at least one Nazi concentration camp.

Answer 3

not in England, not during the Holocaust.