Max Muir
2008-06-05 18:00:24
>Just a note about “concentration camps”. The British invented them during the Boer war in South Africa.
No, they didn’t. The Spanish used concentration camps in Cuba, in 1896, some four years before their use by the
British, in South Africa. ‘Concentration camp’ comes from the translation, into English, of the Spanish term
‘reconcentrado’, a name for a Spanish concentration camp and also one for the Cuban civilians who were imprisoned
in them.
The claim that the British invented concentration camps originates with the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, i.e., Dr. Goebbels.
