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Stammlager
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German
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Etymology
From Stamm (“stem, trunk”, and hence “origin, root, center”) + Lager (“camp”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Stammlager n (strong, genitive Stammlagers, plural Stammlager or Stammläger)
- (historical) 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)
- 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.
Declension
Declension of Stammlager [neuter, strong]
Further reading
Stammlager on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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