Barracks

In a hut ( from French baraque ( 'field hut ', lightweight, mostly one-story Behelfshaus ) and it. Baracca, both from barraca span ), there is a makeshift accommodation, as one-story, not unterkellerter lighter construction, particularly of wood. The word denoted first a soldier accommodation. It can also be a temporary building for temporary mass accommodation of persons, as soldiers, workers, refugees, bombed, prisoners of war, internees and forced laborers.

In the Third World, they also serve as permanent accommodation in shanty towns, known as favelas or slums.

Barracks are built from simple materials such as wood, corrugated iron or cardboard, with some brick walls. They are usually single-storey and a little isolated. Often sanitary facilities are lacking.

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