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Winston Churchill (1951–1955) Anthony Eden (1955–1957) ... concentration camps and the return of thousands of emaciated British prisoners of war from the Pacific ...
However, the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which entire regions had been depopulated. [ 8 ] Eventually, authorities built a total of 45 tented camps for Boer internees and 64 additional camps for Black Africans.
Churchill and Sansom claimed they were a married couple and related to Winston Churchill to make themselves seem more valuable as prisoners and less likely to be executed as spies. They were sent to different concentration camps, where they were sentenced to death, and Odette tortured, and but both escaped execution.
The Nazi officer made commandant of the concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, brought the motto Arbeit Macht Frei - works sets you free - from another camp where he had worked, at Dachau in Germany.
This was not the first appearance of internment camps, as the Spanish had used internment in Cuba in the Ten Years' War, and the Americans in the Philippine–American War, [88] but the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time that a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which whole regions had been ...
First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and crematoria. More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews.
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
The British government used concentration camps during the 1952–1960 Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya. [1] [2] Thomas Askwith, the official tasked with designing the British 'detention and rehabilitation' programme during the summer and autumn of 1953, termed his system the Pipeline. [3]