stalag

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English

Etymology

Borrowing from German Stalag (“POW camp”), short for German Stammlager (“base camp”), from German Stamm (“stem, base”) + Lager (“lair, camp”).

Noun

stalag (plural stalags)

  1. (historical) A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
  2. (attributive) A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s.
    stalag fiction; a stalag novel

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French

Noun

stalag m (plural stalags)

  1. stalag

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