Herero

[Charles Albert]

Naturally......all things evil orignate here.....

Imagine if Time had been a bit more co-operative, the US might have been
able to benefit from the example you Australians set with YOUR indigenous
people....


But back to the topic at hand. Though I agree that it is a trivial
distinction, surely a congential echo of my Oppressor forebears (before you
xit down my neck for that - the OED finds the "e" perfectly acceptable), I
think the use of barbed wire constitutes a paradigm shift in
"internment"....


But I am probably wrong....


love,
cfa


oh, it's so great to be back.......



On 2/16/06, jbor at bigpond.com <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Dunno. But they were called "reservations" and "plantations" in the
> U.S. well before then.
>
> best
>
> On 17/02/2006, at 8:11 AM, Charles Albert wrote:
>
> > What term was used to describe the locations were Boers were interned
> > during their war with the Brits? As I recall, these were the first
> > "concentration camps"....
> >
> >  love,
> >  cfa
> >
> > On 2/16/06, Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >> "The terms lebensraum and konzentrationslager were both first used by
> >> the German colonial regime in south-west Africa (now Namibia), which
> >> committed genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples and bequeathed
> >> its ideas and personnel directly to the Nazi party."
> >> (...)
> >> Communism may be dead, but clearly not dead enough
> >> Seumas Milne, Thursday February 16, 2006, The Guardian
> >>  http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1710890,00.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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