Concentration Camps Concentration camp: A camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners or refugees) are detained or confined. Those persons are usually subject to poor conditions, exposure to the elements and sometimes torture. People usually associate the term concentration camp with the Nazi camps of WWII. People usually believe that only the Nazis were capable of such cruelty and inhumanity. People are wrong… You sit crammed in to a small tent with twenty other internees, you cant move and can hardly breath. The foul odder of human wastes stings you nose. You search for water to appease your thirst.