3 Quotes About Concentration Camp

If you’ve heard the term concentration camps, you likely picture a Nazi camp in World War II or a Japanese camp in World War II. You might also think of a modern-day refugee camp, one that houses thousands of people who have been displaced from their home countries. However, the word is also used to describe a more ominous place—an incarceration facility for political prisoners. In fact, concentration camps were used by many governments during the 20th century Read more

In the post-World War II era, they were used to imprison refugees and political dissidents. They were also used by countries in Africa and South America to keep enemies in line during war or to control their populations. Concentration camps today are most known for being a part of the Holocaust, when millions of people were killed by Nazi Germany in concentration camps like Auschwitz and other extermination facilities.

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For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad. Anne Holm
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It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. [.] But it's not civilized. There is something indecent about it -- really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this. [.] I have become so indifferent about the dead. Elizabeth Wein