concentration camp

a detention facility camp established by a totalitarian dictatorship to place dissidents, ethnic or religious or other citizens, and other so-called "undesirables". Usually the prisoners are beaten up constantly, starved, tortured, forced to do hard labor and live in unsanitary filthy conditions, and eventually murdered. During the Holocaust the Nazis exterminated around 6 million Jews and 5 million "others". This included democrats, republicans, liberals, socialists, communists, Gypsies, people with disabilities, critics of fascism, homosexuals, Russians, Poles, Slavs, pacifists and much more. The inmates all got their heads shaved and were forced to wear certain badges on their clothing to identify their "offense" (yellow star, pink triangle, blue P, and so on). Some prisoners were medically experimented on, some had their body parts used to make things like book covers, lampshades, wallets, couches and wallpaper; but many more were forced to take showers of Zyklon B.