What is a concertration camp?

Answer 1

A concentration camp is a place where one's enemies - usually in wartime - are kept. Usually to prevent them from being of service to the enemy.

The concept was invented by the British during the Boer War in South Africa - the Boer menfolk had taken to guerrilla warfare and were being aided by their wives and families. The british rounded up the wives and families in an effort to hamper the men's activities.

Answer 2

Concentration camps basically were slave labor camps where the Third Reich deported unwanted individuals (Jews, Sinti, Roma, politicial dissidents, homosexuals, communists, ...) and forced them to work - many of them had to work until they died from undernourishment, malnutrition, diseases, plagues or were murdered by the SS camp guards or their own inmate capos.

Answer 3

Concentration camps were basically large fenced prisons where the Nazis kept the Jews during WWII before they were killed, tortured or worse.

Answer 4

It was where Jews were interred during WWII.