2007-12-17 04:43:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I think the others have answered you adequetly.
I have been to Buchenwald Concentration Camp and it was horrible to see.
It does mean to contain and focus all in one area. They put all their supposed Riff Raff and Jews and anyone else they thought dangerous into these places to slave labor them and kill them off.
2007-12-17 06:04:10 · answer #1 · answered by Legend Gates Shotokan Karate 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
German word for the camps was Konzentrationslager, a direct translation of the English word concentration camps, which is the British name of internment camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
It becomes significant in the concentration; "the grouping together of so many into an inadequate space"; of the people who were sent there.
2007-12-17 12:52:59 · answer #2 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It means to "Concentrate" political oppenents into one area of confinement. It was orginated in Cuba by the Spanish during the 1890's and was picked up by the British during the Boer war.
2007-12-17 12:48:22 · answer #3 · answered by Philip L 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It means concentration in the sense of a lot of people being put in one place, not as in thinking hard.
A lot of people in one place is a 'concentration' of people.
2007-12-17 12:47:44 · answer #4 · answered by Eraserhead 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
fairly obvious. the undesirables were "concentrated" in one spot or locale. although there were more than one camp the inhabitants were tightly localized.
2007-12-17 12:49:42 · answer #5 · answered by Loren S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it means a group of people in a certain place with unity because they have to obey all the rules given by the head.
2007-12-17 18:30:50 · answer #6 · answered by ma.liza "blue" 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋