The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
Webb, Simon
http://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/uk-concentration-camps-wwii-poland-internment-prisoners
Date Written: 2017-05-08
Publisher: Jacobin
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX20703
Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
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