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- noun A
camp (such as alabour camp orconcentration camp ) that makes up part of a larger camp orcomplex .
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, I do know from the knife that he helped liberate a subcamp of Dachau called Allach.
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Write to Laura Meckler at laura. meckler@wsj.com Corrections & Amplifications During World War II, President Barack Obama's great-uncle helped liberate a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp called Ohrdruf.
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During World War II, President Barack Obama's great-uncle helped liberate a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp called Ohrdruf.
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In fact his great uncle helped liberate Ohrdruf, one of the first camps to be liberated, it was in Germany, it's a subcamp of Buchenwald, his uncle a part of the regiment that went in and freed that particular work camp.
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What the Barack Obama campaign is saying, he made a mistake here, that it was his great uncle and that, in fact, he was there for the liberation of camp Ohrdruf, which was a subcamp of Buchenwald.
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Louis Zaks, who had been in concentration camps since 1941, was working in the coal mines of the Jaworzno subcamp when the Soviets approached; he declared his own emancipation a day early by refusing to go to work, which in normal times wouldhave meant a bullet in the head.
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Hewas marched to another subcamp, Blechhammer, where he ran off and hid in a coal pile.
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He did have a great uncle who was part of the liberation force that went into a subcamp of Burkenwald, so -- Buchenwald -- sorry.
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Burton said in the statement that Obama's great uncle served in the 89th Infantry Division that entered Germany in 1945 and on April 4 overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Count me in the other camp I'm hoping I'll be in the subcamp of people who like it AND with whom you share tastes.
Funny and scary Tripp 2008
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