Were the reservations for native indians put in place by nazi occupiers an early form of concentration camps?

Question

After all these reservations forced onto native indians were worse then hitlers concentration camps, for these camps had no water, which meant no food source, no fertile soil or materials to make shelter, the indians died a terrible slow death, at least the jews died a quick death after being gassed by the later nazis.

Answer 1

Funny you mention that, a little known fact (by which I mean a fact few people know about) is that Hitler actually modeled his concentration camps to those of the American "Native Reservations", not to mention getting many of his notorious Nazi ideas from the treatment the English-Americans gave many of Indian tribes in the 1700 and 1800's.
It's an unfortunate truth that ANYONE can learn from history...

Answer 2

Didn't like the answers the first time around? Here, I'll repost mine for you:

Yes, the Nazi's were such compassionate wardens. After being starved in a disease ridden slave labor camp that had such extracuricular activities as forced medical experimentation, they were kind enough to offer you the opportunity of being lined up along a trench and being shot. Later on when the popularity of these camps led them to overcrowding, they added the wonderful feature of placing the women, children and elderly into specialty designed delousing showers and gassing them with zyclone B, a very effective pesticide that had the side effect of killing the host. Afterwards they lovingly placed you in an incinerator and carefully sifted throught the ashes to retrieve any valuables like gold teeth. These camps had such forgiving rules such as:
Look a guard in the eye, get shot.
Be disrespectful to a guard, get shot.
Don't follow instructions, get shot.
Move to slow, get shot.
Resist unwanted advances by a guard, get shot.
Make a complaint, get shot.
Try try leave, get shot.
Get sick, get shot.
Get hurt, get shot.
Don't make work quota, get shot.

Answer 3

While the US Government's treatment of the Indians was nothing to crow about, comparing their treatment to that of European Jews in Nazi Germany shows that you really haven't studied either situation.

While Indians, on occassion, were shipped off to camps in areas much different from which they lived, death came from disease or alcoholism rather than lack of shelter, water and food. In several cases, the Indians made the mistake of "backing the wrong horse". For example, the Mohawks in NY mercilessly raided settlements in Central NY in the Revolutionary War. It was no other than that famous nazi, George Washington, who sent an army into that area to destroy Indian settlements in 1780. In 1811, territorial Governor William Harrison smashed the Indian uprising led by Tecumseh, which was well-funded by the British. In 1862, another awful nazi, Abraham Lincoln sent troops into Minnesota to quell an uprising by Red Cloud; not quite the time to "make waves" against the Union.

Answer 4

That's messed up.



America was taken by GENOCIDE.

How dare any of you say these things. It was most certainly NOT a war.
Shame on you.
You have the nerve to say they "wanted to go" to reservations?


I pray you don't teach hate like this to kids, lord help us all.


I am no saint, but that's really , really messed up anyone would defend the massacre of millions.

They were lied to.

America is stolen property, we are all , living and profiting, off of stolen goods.



I sense a bit of a guilt-caused defense mechanisms here, "They wanted to, They just lost the war." Most of you are completely in denial.

You just can't admit the "American Dream", was, and is still, a nightmare.

Answer 5

You are comparing apples and oranges!

Native Americans weren't FORCED to live on reservations - they CHOSE to. The Jews in Nazi Germany were FORCED into the concentration camps - they didn't CHOOSE to be there.

Native Americans weren't forced to choose which of their children got to go with them, and which one was sent off to die. The Jews had to make that choice.

Native Americans were given reservation land as "compensation" for their land being stolen. They were never forced to live on the reservations by the government - I don't know how you can begin to compare the plight of the two.

Answer 6

It is hard to know where to begin with this trash.

As a person of native American heritage, I am repulsed when I read questions like this. Native people were engaged in a war like any other people fighting for their land, culture, way of life, etc. We lost. It was a war and we lost. Nothing more, nothing less.

To think that Europeans should have treated us differently than we treated our own enemies (who we killed, took as slaves, raped their women........), is self serving and simplistic. But that's what you get the most of on YA.

Answer 7

A lot of the jews died a horrible slow death. The were starved, worked to death, diseased.

Answer 8

No.
The Indians were put in reservations with good INTENTIONS.
That the logistics failed is another matter.

The Nazis on the otherhand had INTENTIONS to wipe them out.

The world made be full of good intentions, but IMO they make a difference between barbarie and civilized behavior.

Answer 9

What was done to them was definitely wrong, but now it's time to move on. Crying over spilled milk only gets you watered down milk. If you want new milk, then you have to do the work of milking the cow.

Answer 10

Perhaps you should study history before commenting on it.