2006-10-19 04:10:22 · 13 answers · asked by duiweljie 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They have been started as early as the 19th century when U.S. troops forcefully made the Native Americans leave their land ("Trail of Tears"). They were put into these places for "safekeeping."
The German army used them to displace French and Belgian families in the first World War (source....Military Channel). Of course, they also used them to torment Jews and other "non-Aryans" in WW2.
Soviet Russia used them. They are known over there as "Gulags." Asian Communist nations such as China and North Korea use them as "re-education through labor" camps.
How does one "re-educate" someone by forced labor anyway?
2006-10-19 04:30:42 · answer #1 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Concentration camps were invented by the British during the Boer War, and NOT by Hitler. Even when Hitler started using them, his concentration camps were mainly for political prisoners and were very different to extermination camps such as Auschwitz.
2006-10-19 06:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by Boo Boo B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The British started it in what is today known as South Africa, during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Africans and Afrikaners were held in different (not the same) concentration camps, and as far as I know, camps for Africans were worse then those for Afrikaners.
2006-10-19 04:40:16 · answer #3 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The concentration camps started in Germany by the Germans specifically Hitler.
2006-10-19 04:13:54 · answer #4 · answered by ckm44 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The british army moved Boer women and children into them where many died from cholera and typhus due to lack of food and shelter and sanitation. The british press actually made such a fuss about it that the conditions improved after a tour by a leading feminist whose name I forget. T
The idea was to "concentrate" all the supporters of the guerilla fighting boers into camps to stop them getting civilian support.
2006-10-19 04:41:56 · answer #5 · answered by peteophile 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The British Army moved the Afrikaner resistance fighters (the Boers) women and children off there farms and into concentration camps during the Boer Wars (then burned their crops) It was called the scorched earth policy.
I can't remember going any further back than that.
They did not however undertake a systematic mass destruction of a whole subculture like the Nazi's did during WWII.
2006-10-19 04:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by london.oval 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Disregarding the incorrect answers here.
Concentration camp were originally introduced by the British during the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902)
2006-10-19 04:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The British in the Boer War in South Africa
2006-10-19 07:56:20 · answer #8 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Germany and Russia with their labour camps but I think they got a lot of their ideas from the Romans. It is nothing new.
2006-10-19 04:36:45 · answer #9 · answered by robert m 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one really knows. Men have been rounding up people and detaining them for hundreds if not thouands of years.
2006-10-19 04:18:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋