Date: 2023-01-28 11:09 am (UTC)
kjn: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kjn
The (American) soldiers might not have heard the term concentration camp before, but the term existed in English: Second Boer War concentration camps.

Most colonial powers used similar methods. The American internment camps for Japanese-Americans might have been more humane, but the US policy towards Native Americans with continuous forced relocations and reservations? Not much different from the German concentration camps.

There has also been a lot of discussion here in Sweden about what was known, and frankly, there were well-reported instances of atrocities, forced relocations, and internment/concentration camps already in 1942. And what was known in Sweden would be available in the US and the UK too. It was not lack of knowledge that was the issue, it was willful disbelief and ignorance.
This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

Profile

canyonwalker: wiseguy (Default)
canyonwalker

June 2025

S M T W T F S
1 2 3 4 5 67
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 7th, 2025 05:32 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios