Megasdoux t1_iqv7vfs wrote
The British also implemented the first modern usage of concentration camps during the Boer war, which Nazi Germany emulated four decades later.
Kung_Flu_Master t1_iqvytiv wrote
not true, and is a very common internet myth, the inspiration for Hitler was the US genocide of native Americans and the Armenian genocide.
the boer camps were internment camps similar to the ones in America for Japanese Americans during ww2, the reason the death toll was so high was because there was an epidemic at the time, and food convoys were being destroyed by boer terrorists, it got so bad that merchants refused to deliver food without basically a small army to help them.
ArmanDoesStuff t1_iqxi9p1 wrote
> US genocide of native Americans and the Armenian genocide.
Did they use concentration camps?
Kung_Flu_Master t1_iqzzsit wrote
it wasn't the use of concentration camps, it was the fact that American basically managed to wipe them out from such a large amount of land, and displaced them onto a few reserves.
Megasdoux t1_iqw26rs wrote
Every implementation of concentration camps is a terrible act, and it is not a competition of which one is worse. People suffered and died regardless.
You are referring to the Holocaust, which was indeed a genocide undertaken by the Nazis in Germany and Nazi-affiliated governments. The genocides of Indigenous Peoples in North America and of the Armenian peoples were precursors to the Holocaust. I did not say that the Holocaust was inspired by British Internment camps during the Boer war. I was inferring how the use of concentration camps during the Boer war were instituted as policy by the British under Kitchener, just as the Nazi camps were also established as policy.
While the actions of the British in South Africa is not labelled as genocide, the actions through the use of internment/concentration camps were still echoed in various degrees afterwards in the Internment of Japanese-Americans and Jewish(as well as Romani and other people's) in Nazi Germany. Nonetheless, these were all instances of concentration camps. I don't see how this is an "internet myth" when there are several historical connections and scholars have stated as much.
Concentration and Internment are synonyms and are often used interchangeably to describe the same thing.
Pay08 t1_iqw5s5w wrote
Both of you are incorrect. Hitler was "inspired" by Stalin's gulags.
ArmanDoesStuff t1_iqxilhg wrote
iirc we were also the first ones to prioritize civilian targets in bombing runs because Churchill knew Hitler would respond in kind, and our military was more valuable.
And so the Blitz was born!
Ah Churchill. What a cunt.
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