Post Reply - Concentrationcamps are back !

American Heritage Dictionary

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp ;
A concentration camp is a form of internment camp for confining political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups, on the grounds of state security, or for exploitation or punishment.^[1]

 Prominent examples of historic concentration camps include the British confinement of non-combatants during the Second Boer War, the mass internment of Japanese-American citizens by the US during the Second World War, the Nazi concentration camps, which later morphed into extermination camps, and the Soviet labour camps or gulag.^[1]

DJ, the definition of "contration camp" is not that easy. Refugee, POW-camps (US civil war) may see high excess deaths often linked to logistic/weather issues. Also lack of hygiene-spread of diseases can result in a high number of deaths. 

Maybe the dividing line has to be the goal of the camp. Is the goal to keep control over refugees, Prisoners Of War or to kill them ? 

A "camp" can be in the open air-not even tents-but it also can be in "good modern buildings"....

From the wiki page;
The term "concentration camp" and "internment camp" are used to refer to a variety of systems that greatly differ in their severity, mortality rate, and architecture; their defining characteristic is that inmates are held outside the rule of law.^[2] Extermination camps or death camps, whose primary purpose is killing, are also imprecisely referred to as "concentration camps".^[3]
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The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term concentration camp as: "A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group which the government has identified as dangerous or undesirable."^[4]
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Although the first example of civilian internment may date as far back as the 1830s,^[5] the English term concentration camp was first used in order to refer to the reconcentration camps (Spanish:reconcentrados) which were set up by the Spanish military in Cuba during the Ten Years' War (1868–1878).^[6]^[7] The label was applied yet again to camps set up by the United States during the Philippine–American War (1899–1902).^[8] And expanded usage of the concentration camp label continued, when the British set up camps during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa for interning Boers during the same time period.^[6]^[9] The German Empire also established concentration camps during the Herero and Namaqua genocide (1904–1907); the death rate of these camps was 45 per cent, twice that of the British camps.^[10]

Lack of legal procedures may be part of the difference-however nazi-germany often did see "legal procedures" to send (groups of) people to camps...Also the Soviet Union, US, UK, NL, Belgium, France did "create a legal basis" for -often- mass murder...

Depending on the definition one could claim "concentration camps" go far back in human history. Pre-Roman societies may have used POW's as slaves in mines...Is a slave-ship a floating concentration camp ? One has to answer that question with a "yes"....

Based on the color of their skin groups of people were concentrated and transported without any legal procedures other than allowing slave trade...Part of the "plan/justification" was "non-christians have no soul so they are animals"...