Stammlager

German

Alternative forms

Stalag (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Stamm (“stem, trunk”, and hence “origin, root, center”) +‎ Lager (“camp”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃtamˌlaːɡɐ/
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Noun

Stammlager n (strong, genitive Stammlagers, plural Stammlager or Stammläger)

(historical) 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.
In the main camps, the prisoners of war were registered and distributed to the places of labour.

Das Stammlager Auschwitz I diente als Verwaltungszentrum des gesamten Auschwitz-Lagerkomplexes.
Auschwitz I, the main camp, served as the administrative centre of the whole Auschwitz camp complex.

Declension

Declension of Stammlager [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Stammlager	die	Stammlager, Stammläger
genitive	eines	des	Stammlagers	der	Stammlager, Stammläger
dative	einem	dem	Stammlager	den	Stammlagern, Stammlägern
accusative	ein	das	Stammlager	die	Stammlager, Stammläger

Further reading

Stammlager on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

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