PART A: What does the word “concentrate” most closely mean as it is used in paragraph 8? A focus B gather C protect D punish
parzgraph 8 ;
To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps in order to keep Jews grouped closely together during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non-Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit.