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Concentration is a revisionist word to make it sound more harsh. They were internment camps. Concentration camps are where you send people to die.
by mason240 13y ago
Concentration is a revisionist word to make it sound more harsh. They were internment camps.
Concentration camps are where you send people to die.
- 67726e 13y agoI'm not sure wether to chalk that up to ignorance or just a cultural understanding of the word. I realize here in the US, "Concentration Camp" has become synonymous with the Nazi death camps. However, a concentration camp is just another word for a place to intern people. A death camp is where people are sent do die.
- jlgreco 13y agoThe term "concentration camp" really only came to mean "death camp" during/after WWII. Before then it was used more or less literally, a camp where people are concentrated (which is not to say that they were not often brutal and deadly... but the purpose of the camps was not extermination)