Let’s go ahead and reserve the word concentration camp for the industrialized murder factories hitler built in Europe. The Japanese internment was a horrible policy and it shows a real paucity of humanity. We are right to condemn our grandparents who perpetrated and supported the policy.
Concentration camps are, by definition, places where lots of people are crammed (concentrated). These were absolutely concentration camps. Hitler had death camps. They are not the same thing.
It was NOTHING like the final solution.
You’re right. It was more like the years leading up to the final solution, when people were shoved into ghettos or camps because of their race and the perceived threat of being that race
Why don’t you ask George Takei what he calls them? He was in one, though he’s far more forgiving about the experience than I suspect many of us, including myself, would be.
Let’s go ahead and reserve the word concentration camp for the industrialized murder factories hitler built in Europe. The Japanese internment was a horrible policy and it shows a real paucity of humanity. We are right to condemn our grandparents who perpetrated and supported the policy.
But,
It was NOTHING like the final solution.
Emmmm no. Let’s not do that, because that’s not what a concentration camp is. What you are thinking of is “death camp” or “extermination camp”.
Concentration camps were used by both the spanish in the 1896 Cuban rebellion and the British in the 2nd boer war. They are not a uniquely nazi thing.
Concentration camps are, by definition, places where lots of people are crammed (concentrated). These were absolutely concentration camps. Hitler had death camps. They are not the same thing.
You’re right. It was more like the years leading up to the final solution, when people were shoved into ghettos or camps because of their race and the perceived threat of being that race
Why don’t you ask George Takei what he calls them? He was in one, though he’s far more forgiving about the experience than I suspect many of us, including myself, would be.