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Originally Posted by Ted I reckon I'll just say: well put Doppleganger. And to avoid another generalization; the concentration camp was a Brittish invention from the Boer war. The Germans just added extermination camps in the equation, but that was an evolvement of the original concept. |
The myth that the concentration camp was invented by the British is actually WW2 Nazi propaganda.
The term was first used to describe prison camps used by the Spanish military during the Cuban insurrection (1868–78 )
At the start of the 20th century there was quite a fad for their use.
In fact, they were even used by America in the Philippines (1898–1901),