But - you shouldn't confuse concentration camps with death camps

which people do sometimes.

The Boer War concentation camps - and the early Nazi ones - were deeply unpleasant holding places for people you wanted off the streets, without them having committed any crimes.

But neither of them were industrially-organised killing machines. That came later in WW2, with Auschwitz etc. Something very different.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Oct 29, 10:44:13