Concentration camps ( the terminology ) derives from the spaniards' use of concentration camps in cuba ( Reconcentración policy ). But the spaniards got the idea of concentration camps from the US with our use of concentration camps on the natives in the early 1800s and onwards. We just called it a "reservation" rather than a concentration camp.
The first modern concentration camps were created in the 1830s and natives/africans were the first peoples put in concentration camps.
We know the nazis admired what the US and britain was able to accomplish with concentration camps and they took it to another level. Though today, concentration camps are associated with nazi germany, it existed more than 100 years before ww2 and it's been used to wipe out populations for 100 years before the nazis came into power.
Every major power ( every european colonial power, russians/soviets, americans, japanese, etc ) used concentration camps to some degree in the 1800/1900s. Some have even argued it was the greatest tool of war in the 1800s and 1900s before the atomic bombs were invented.
The first modern concentration camps were created in the 1830s and natives/africans were the first peoples put in concentration camps.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp#Native_...
The british are generally credited with creating the first death camp in the 2nd boer war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War#Concentration_...
We know the nazis admired what the US and britain was able to accomplish with concentration camps and they took it to another level. Though today, concentration camps are associated with nazi germany, it existed more than 100 years before ww2 and it's been used to wipe out populations for 100 years before the nazis came into power.
Every major power ( every european colonial power, russians/soviets, americans, japanese, etc ) used concentration camps to some degree in the 1800/1900s. Some have even argued it was the greatest tool of war in the 1800s and 1900s before the atomic bombs were invented.