Couldn't Siberian labor camps (ones in the far hinterlands specifically) count?
if so, the Nazi weren't first.
Does intentionally working people to death count?
Couldn't Siberian labor camps (ones in the far hinterlands specifically) count?
if so, the Nazi weren't first.
Couldn't Siberian labor camps (ones in the far hinterlands specifically) count?
if so, the Nazi weren't first.
Unlike Nazi death camps Soviet labor camps weren't meaning to be mass destruction camps. There died lot of people but it wasn't intentional. Soviets just didn't care any shit survive prisoners or not. Nazis wanted just kill all who were in camps.
...For that matter I would not be so sure that at some point in the future something like the holocaust in both scale and deliberate action may not come again some day, even with the example in history telling everyone to never let this happen again.
Humans can be right bastards.
How about the anglo/boar war . The british concentration camps do they count ?
How about the anglo/boar war . The british concentration camps do they count ?
Not in the slightest.How about the anglo/boar war . The british concentration camps do they count ?
Quite.The British camps during the Boer War were part of an overall strategy that was designed to deprive the Boer Kommandos of the support they received from the civilian population. This included emptying the countryside and also string barbed wire fences to divider the countryside up in to manageable chunks. The appalling death rate in the camps, mostly women and children, was due to the lack of clean water, adequate sanitation, limited medical care, etc. While no doubt some of the mistreatment was due to individuals who wanted bad things to happen to these civilians, simple incompetence managed to do the trick. When you look at the medical and other preventable disasters that overtook British forces in South Africa...