Megasdoux
Megasdoux t1_isg3s2h wrote
Reply to comment by Larielia in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator
BBC did a podcast called "History of the world in a hundred objects" that is really nice and succinct. My go-to suggestion for those wanting to get into history in general.
Megasdoux t1_iqw26rs wrote
Reply to comment by Kung_Flu_Master in TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam by shogunsft
Every implementation of concentration camps is a terrible act, and it is not a competition of which one is worse. People suffered and died regardless.
You are referring to the Holocaust, which was indeed a genocide undertaken by the Nazis in Germany and Nazi-affiliated governments. The genocides of Indigenous Peoples in North America and of the Armenian peoples were precursors to the Holocaust. I did not say that the Holocaust was inspired by British Internment camps during the Boer war. I was inferring how the use of concentration camps during the Boer war were instituted as policy by the British under Kitchener, just as the Nazi camps were also established as policy.
While the actions of the British in South Africa is not labelled as genocide, the actions through the use of internment/concentration camps were still echoed in various degrees afterwards in the Internment of Japanese-Americans and Jewish(as well as Romani and other people's) in Nazi Germany. Nonetheless, these were all instances of concentration camps. I don't see how this is an "internet myth" when there are several historical connections and scholars have stated as much.
Concentration and Internment are synonyms and are often used interchangeably to describe the same thing.
Megasdoux t1_iqv7vfs wrote
Reply to TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam by shogunsft
The British also implemented the first modern usage of concentration camps during the Boer war, which Nazi Germany emulated four decades later.
Megasdoux t1_j4tv0pf wrote
Reply to Police dog in Wyandotte accused of stealing fellow officer's lunch by marilyn_mansonv2
Bake him away toys.