Stammlager

Definitionen

main or central camp; the administrative center of a complex of camps and/or places of forced labour (originally used of prisoner-of-war camps, later also – and now especially – of concentration camps)

historical, neuter, strong

Beispiele

“In den Stammlagern wurden⟳ die Kriegsgefangenen registriert und auf die Betriebe verteilt.”

In the main camps, the prisoners of war were registered and distributed to the places of labour.

“Das Stammlager Auschwitz I diente als Verwaltungszentrum des gesamten Auschwitz-Lagerkomplexes.”

Auschwitz I, the main camp, served as the administrative centre of the whole Auschwitz camp complex.

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