# das Stammlager

das Stammlager is a German noun meaning “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)”. Forms: des Stammlagers, die Stammlager.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Stammlagers
- Plural: die Stammlager

## Meanings

1. _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.

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