Herero

[Otto]

I think you both make valid points.

Of course those camps in the Boer War were called "concentration camps" 
but I don't think that they were intended to commit largescale genocide, 
contrary to the German KZ's. Insofar I don't think that a simply 
comparison relying on the term only would be ok.

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The concentration camps
These had originally been set up for refugees whose farms had been 
destroyed by the British "Scorched Earth" policy (Burning down all Boer 
homesteads and farms). However, following Kitchener's new policy, many 
women and children were forcibly moved to prevent the Boers from 
resupplying at their homes and more camps were built and converted to 
prisons. This relatively new idea was essentially humane in its planning 
in London but ultimately proved brutal due to its lack of proper 
implementation. This was not the first appearance of concentration 
camps. The Spanish had used them in the Third Cuban War of Independence 
that later led to the Spanish-American War, and the United States used 
them to devastate guerrilla forces during the Philippine American War. 
But the concentration camp system of the British was on a much larger scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
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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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