concentration camps?

Question

the British invented them i found this out i was surprised wt do u think

Answer 1

Sure the brits invent it, and then give the germans a hard time for using them

Answer 2

You are incorrect. The modern concentration camp was invented by Imperial Spain, in Cuba.

There's a description of the Spanish camps here, made by US
Senator Redfield Proctor. It appears in Clara Barton's THE RED
CROSS, entitled 'Concentration Camps of Cuba 1895-1898'.

http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oagld003.php

As you can see the Spanish "Campos di concentramento"
display the sinister morphology of the concentration camp -
the barbed wire, the watch towers, the location near rail
junctions, interned civilians, guards, ditches...

You can see the effect of the Spanish camps here:

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/reconcentrado.htm

Since 1895 is definitely before 1899 it seems that the discredit
for inventing concentration camps belongs to our Spanish
cousins; however, the British followed them into the gutter in
the 2nd half of the Second Anglo Boer War.

Unfortunately Goebbels claimed the English invented concentration camps in order to discredit British criticism of
the Nazi camps in the 1930s.

"The persistent belief that the British invented the concentration
camp has been the war's [WW2] most enduring propaganda
issue."

Page 13, Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present.

According to Robertson, Patrick. "The Book of Firsts," Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1974, p. 44.

"The idea that the British 'invented' concentration camps was fostered by Dr. Goebbels during the 1930s."

Answer 3

The British invented the word, but the forced internment of large numbers of civilians is certainly not new.

And a concentration camp is not as evil as a death camp

Answer 4

Not sure what your point is , Yes the British did start what is called today a prisoner of war camp , that was from 1899-1902 in The South African War , But at least they did not slaughter hundreds and thousand innocent men women and children of Jewish descent like the Nazi's did , I have provided you a link that gives the history of prisoner of war camps .

Answer 5

The original concept was used by the Brits in South Africa.

However, the Nazis (National Socialists) took the idea to the next level, and turned them into extermination camps. The Soviet Gulags weren't far off, either. And then there were the re-education camps in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam . . .

Notice how all the worst versions occurred under totalitarian, SOCIALIST regimes?

Answer 6

ok. but the germans had the ones for jews. the japs had em in the philippines during ww2. so... i mean i always thought that the germans invented them to get rid of the jews, but the british? nah. i don't see them as set people on fire while throwing gasoline on them kind of people. *-*

Answer 7

Just learning there was a Boer War, are you?

Answer 8

Yes, in South Africa.

Answer 9

It affects me or society in what way?

Answer 10

one more double standard from britain