History GCSE
Concentration camps
What Concentration camps means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Concentration camps
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Brutal prisons such as Dachau, which initially incarcerated political prisoners like communists and subjected inmates to forced labour and ideological 're-education' as a deterrent against resistance.
Topics that use Concentration camps
- Option 31: Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39 - 2 The police state (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Dictatorship and authoritarianism
- Institutional control
- Political repression
- The Gestapo
- The police state
- The SS
- Subversion of justice
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