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Etymological dictionaries are a valuable resource.
'''Concentration camp'''s were camps the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Nazi Germany]] set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the regime. 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,
'''Concentration camp'''s were camps the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Nazi Germany]] set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the regime. Concentration camps were also used in the Boer War by the British. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term concentration camp was first used in the English language in 1901:
1901 J. ELLIS in Hansard's Parl. Deb. Ser. IV. XC. 180 The policy of placing the women and children confined in the concentration camps in South Africa, whose husbands and fathers are in the field, on reduced rations.
The [[Soviet Union]] created the world's first concentration camp system with a
The [[Soviet Union]] created the world's first concentration camp system with a