internment camp

internment camp

English

Noun

internment camp (plural internment camps)

1. (euphemistic) a concentration camp, especially a non-Nazi one from before or during WWII; a detention center; a relocation camp.

   Historical references describe the camps as internment camps, although others favor the name relocation camps. Others, more critical of this action, refer to them as detention camps or concentration camps.

   • 2018, Emily Feng, “Forced labour being used in China’s ‘re-education’ camps”, in Financial Times‎:

     People assigned to the factories appear to be subject to a less stringent regime than those in the main internment camps, as they are allowed to receive monitored monthly visits and short calls from family members.

Usage notes

This term often appears in texts translated from German, where Internierungslager means any non-Nazi concentration camp, while Konzentrationslager is used exclusively for Nazi concentration camps.

Translations

euphemism

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 拘禁營／拘禁营 Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: interneringskamp (nl) n Finnish: järjestelyleiri French: camp d'internement m German: Internierungslager (de) n Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: מַחֲנֵה מַעֲצָר‎ m (makhané ma'atsár) Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Polish: obóz dla internowanych m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: interneringsläger c Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• concentration camp