who invented, scorched earth policy, and concentration camps and when?

Question

genuine question, lets see what you know, no catch

ok i lied about the catch, but we have to many clever men on here, the only female is wrong duh lol

Answer 1

both of have around for thousands of years and used during wars and peace time. in the last hundred years we seen the Catholics of Europe operate death camps committing genocide on Jews http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/22/catholic-nazis , Pol Pot killing in Cambodia with the use of concentration camps http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/pot.html .

this is just a tiny amount of scorched earth and concentration camps. Greed, and insecurity invented this.

Answer 2

The British always get blamed for this, but it is not exactly true that they invented concentration camps, merely they were the first to user that word to describe them. This was in 1899

The spanish came up with them a little earlier, specifically for civilians.
Camps established by the Spanish to support a similar anti-insurgency campaign in Cuba (circa 1895-1898 [7]), although at least some Spanish sources disagree with the comparison

There was also a camp for prisoners of war where several Confederate soliders in the USA Civil war were held. The conditions were abysmal, lack of sanitation, men fed on little or slops. They were left pretty much to die.

Appalling treatment of prisoners and massacres of non-combatitants has always been done by various conquering armies throughout time. People just make out that concentration camps was it at its worst kind and the british invented it all. OK the british have a lot to answer for, but they never actually made a factory set up just to kill.

Answer 3

Concentration Camp was a term to describe wire camps erected to keep Dutch (Boer) prisoners in by the British during the Boer war.

They were called that as they concentrated people together in one place. They didnt have machine gun towers, gas chambers, medical experiments or torture chambers. The Nazis invented those.

Scorched earth as a military strategy was first recorded as an employed technique by the Vikings, and just about every army since. Who invented the phrase is immaterial.

A cheeky question, designed to mislead by having just enough truth to set off emotions and taint Britain by association.

A great example of clever propaganda.

Answer 4

The earliest recorded scorched earth policy was the one applied by the Helvetii to their own country to discourage stragglers from staying behind when the nation decided ton invade Gallia Cisalpina.

The term "concentration camp" was first applied to the internment camps run by the Brisiah during the Boer War, but the practice of collecting all the potential troublemakers and putting them in one place where they can be carefully watched is much older. The Assyrians did precisely that undeer Hamurabbi, and the Babylonian Captivity was played out in what amounted to concentration camps.

Answer 5

A scorched earth policy is as old as warfare itself. You can go back to the Peloponesian wars fought between Athens and Sparta, or even to Roman occupancy of many lands. Egyptians used this policy, as did Alexander the Great. There is nothing new in aaplying scorched earth.

As to concentration camps, we noble English first came up with that idea when we were fighting the Boers. Yet another great example of Imperialist expansion policy.

Answer 6

The Russians invented the scorched earth policy during the Napoleonic wars, and contrary to popular beliefs it was not the British who invented concentration camps during the Boer war, it was actually the Spanish who built and used the first concentration camps in colonial Cuba in 1895

Answer 7

Well The British are the first associated with the term, however all cultures have used some form. Something as simple as conscription could be argued to be the same.

I believe scorched earth is also the same. Any invading army who plundered and pillaged would have used a form of scorched earth. And retreating armies would have as well. If there is nothing left for the conqueror, them he can't survive.

Answer 8

In Europe the scorched earth tactic was probably first used in about 60BC by Vercingetorix, the war leader of the Gauls in what is now France in an effort to stop Julius Caesar conquering Gaul.

Concentration camps, as others have said, first came into being in the Boer War.

Answer 9

In recent times the British had an early form of concentration camp in the Boer War set up by Batdon Powel the founder of the scout movement , scorched earth police is thosands of years old not a moden tatic

Answer 10

Concentration Camps were British of course thier equivilent had been around for thousands of years. The Jews were held in bondage in Egypt and Babylon.

Scorched Earth has also been around since Roman days. The first modern case would have been the Russians during the Napoleonic Campaign.

Answer 11

Scorched earth policy ???

Wow that is probably the oldest thing ever !!!
It is mentioned in the oldest antique written texts.
early Huns burnt the central asian forests to replace the existing civilization with theirs (base on horse and grassland).


The concentration camps (modern ones) are I think a british invention during the "boer war" in South Africa. They were used against the Boers (Germano-dutch early colonists)