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Concentration camp

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'''Concentration camp'''s were are camps the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Nazi Germany]] set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the a regime. They were most notoriously used by [[Nazi Germany]], as well as in [[The Soviet Union|Soviet Russia]], and Dutch controlled [[South Africa]]. The term concentration camp was coined by Soviet Communist Party General Secreary [[Vladimir Lenin]] in a letter of 9 August 1918 in which he state,
{{Cquote|It is essential to organise a reinforced guard of reliable persons to carry out mass terror against [[kulaks]], priests and White Guardists; unreliable elements should be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town" <ref>Geoffrey Hosking, A History of the Soviet Union, 1992, p. 71. </ref>}}
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