How many countries had concentration camps?

Question

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Answer 1

They were invented by the British during the Boer War in South Africa to imprison the families of the Dutch settlers who were fighting for independence . Many of the prisoners died from disease.
In WW2 the Nazis had camps in Germany and Austria but most of the extermination camps were in Poland

Answer 2

There has been concentration camps for as long as there have been people living on the planet. We put Japanese Americans in concentration camps in WW2 for fear of spies, but the 442nd unit who fought in Italy, was an all Japanese American unit, and was the most decorated unit in the history of this country, with 21 medals of honor. They felt they had to prove their loyalty to this country, and fought with a determination never repeated on the scale that the 442nd displayed in the entire war. They also lost more men then any other unit, primarily because they spent a great deal of time on the front lines, more so then other units. Germany had theirs of course, and there was camps all over Europe, but the real horrible things happened behind the lines of the Soviet Union, which still to this day is unclear how many camps they really had and how many people where murdered in them. German camps where very bad, and that would be an understatement, but Soviet camps where worse, and these camps had been going on for 25 years before the war at least. Stalin is credited as the person who has killed more people in the world then any other single person, and sadly the United States was unable to protect Poland despite promises, this is probably why we have missile defense systems in place there today. Millions of Polish, Jews, and Soviets where herded into camps and executed or forced to work until they dropped dead, literally. They even had thousands of captured American troops in these camps post world war 2, and likely many of these Americans spent the rest of their life in them. Some escaped to tell the story, but because of diplomatic tension between the two countries, despite being on the same side of the war, these men where left behind.

Answer 3

Many countries have used concentration camps but those that
spring to mind are:

(i) Spain, in Cuba, 1885 - 1899.
There's a description of the Spanish camps here, made by US Senator Redfield Proctor in Clara Barton's THE RED CROSS, entitled 'Concentration Camps of Cuba 1895-1898' and parts from this speech are shown on this website.

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

(ii) Britain, in South Africa, 1899-1902.
See "The Great Anglo-Boer War" by Byron Farwell.

(iii) USA, in The Phillipines, 1899-1902.
See John M. Gates, "The Pacification of the Philippines, 1898-1902"

(iv) Germany, in South West Africa, 1905
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4623516.stm
'Unfinished business for Namibia's Herero'

(v) Communist Russia
The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

(vi) Imperial Japan, WW2
E.g., Unit 371 at Pingfan, Manchuria. Also,
http://tinyurl.com/marebss

(vii) Nazis, WW2
The Holocaust, by Martin Gilbert

(viii) Communist China, 1950 to present
Eighteen layers of Hell by Kate Saunders + Harry Wu.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21822684

(ix) North Korea
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/07/opinion/lee-stanton-north-korea/

(x) Vietnam
National Review, April 29, 1977, page 487

(xi) Ireland, Magdalene Laundries, set up by
Eamon De Valera. http://tinyurl.com/a25x58d