Stammlager.
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)
Meaning & usage
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.
Das Stammlager Auschwitz I diente als Verwaltungszentrum des gesamten Auschwitz-Lagerkomplexes.
Where this word comes from
From Stamm (“stem, trunk”, and hence “origin, root, center”) + Lager (“camp”).
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