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reform schools

noun

plural of reform school
as in training schools

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concentration camps
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  • In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
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