[steve-b]

You know, the term 'concentration camp' has a certain meaning greater than the sum of its parts.

Really, you shouldn't let a troll like the "boner" provoke you to the point of picking up Bill Clinton's dictionary instead of Noah Webster's.

The fact that some semi-literates fail to distinguish between "concentration camp" (a place to keep a concentration of people confined) and "extermination camp" (of the sort built by Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan) is no reason to perpetuate the error.

[Petronski]

I'm not perpetuating any error. Work camps and death camps (arbeitslagern und vernichtungslagern) are commonly grouped together under the general description concentration camps (koncentrationslagern). That's not an innaccurate usage (and what it has to do with Clinton you will have to explain).

And the Japanese were kept in internment camps.