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7 sentences with 'camps'

Example sentences and phrases with the word camps and other words derived from it.


• « In 1982 Julie decided to observe for herself the conditions in orphanages and camps in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. »
• « We had no lessons, no camps, no carefully scheduled sports activities to alternate with high-quality company supplied by Mom and Dad. »
• « There, the Vichy government quickly established a distinctly French fascist state, with concentration camps, anti-Semitic laws and a state of war with Britain. »
• « This combination of incentives (e.g. propaganda, programmes) and threats (e.g. SS, concentration camps) helps explain why there was no significant resistance to the Nazi regime from within Germany. »
• « The Reichstag building was set on fire by an unknown arsonist in February, and Hitler blamed the Communists, pushing through an emergency measure (the "Reichstag Fire Decree") that suspended civil rights. This allowed the state to destroy the German Communist Party, imprisoning 20,000 of its members in the newly built concentration camps. »
• « A comparable example was the treatment of the Herero and Nama peoples of South West Africa by the German army in the course of 1904 - 1905. When the Herero resisted the German takeover, they were systematically rounded up and left in concentration camps to starve to death, with the survivors stalked across the desert by the German army, the Germans poisoning or sealing wells and water holes as they went. »
• « Out of necessity, they made extensive use of auxiliary troops to do much of the shooting, recruited from Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian or Estonian prisoner-of-war camps. The Nazis called these auxiliaries "Hiwis", an abbreviation of Hilfswilligen ("helpers"). Soon, both members of the SS army, the Waffen SS, and regular Wehrmacht soldiers were assigned to "Jewish Actions", the euphemism for organised massacres. »

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