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The first use of concentration camps was by the Spanish in Cuba 1896. 200,000 dead est.
Its a little boring to see the British get the blame yet again for the invention. Not to say that the running of them by the British in South Africa was anything short of a tragedy
The German use of forced labour started in the early 1900's in German South West Africa where preprinted death certificates had cause of death "exhaustion" on them. Saved on the old hand writing. Concentration camps were also used by the Germans a precurser to the Nazi era and a source of embarrassment to Germans who claim that the excesses of the 30's and 40's were a purely Nazi aberration.
The German activities were also recorded as the first genocide of the 20th century a fact the German goverment apologised for in 2004.
Last edited by ericferret; 9th Feb 2010 at 08:35.