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n. A camp (such as a labour camp or concentration camp) that makes up part of a larger camp or complex.
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A subcamp is part of a larger camp or complex, often but not always related to detention:
- A Subcamp (SS) under Nazi Germany was part of an internment or concentration camp, often geographically dispersed; notable examples include:
- List of subcamps of Auschwitz
- List of subcamps of Buchenwald
- List of subcamps of Gross-Rosen
- List of subcamps of Mauthausen
- List of subcamps of Neuengamme
- Freiberg subcamp
- Fürstengrube subcamp
- Mühldorf subcamp
- Steyr-Münichholz subcamp
- Within the borders of Guantanamo Bay detention camp, it refers to:
- Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay)
- Camp Echo (Guantanamo Bay)
- Camp Iguana (Guantanamo Bay)
- Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo)
- Within scouting, it refers to part of a Jamboree (Scouting), organized by region or other theme
The term subcamp in the context of Nazi Germany refers to those outlying detention centres (Haftstätten) that came under the command of a main concentration camp run by the SS within the Third Reich. It enables a distinction to be made between the main camps (or Stammlager) and the subcamps (Außenlager or Außenkommandos) subordinated to them. Survival conditions in the subcamps were, in many cases, poorer for the prisoners than those in the main camps.
Usage examples of "subcamp".
The job here is the rush construction of Camp B-11-d Birkenau, one of six subcamps of thirty-two blockhouses each.
Some nights he imagined that the three main camps and thirty-nine subcamps gave off a poisonous mist, a concentrated essence of the suffering and evil that took place here.