History B Schools History Project GCSE
concentration camps
What concentration camps means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of concentration camps
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Reference: OCR
Places initially run by the SA and later the SS that incarcerated political opponents and later targeted minority groups, using brutal forced labour to crush resistance.
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