Concentration camp
The term concentration camp is used to refer to camps where civilians are held, indefinitely, without charge, because there is a perceived security risk attached to the ethnic or religious group they belong to.[1][2][3][4]
The most famous concentration camps were the death camps operated by the Nazis, during World War II.[1][2][3][4] However, according to Andrea Pitzer, author of "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps" the term was first used by Spain, for camps it ran in Cuba, to hold civilians during the period of civilian unrest that preceded the Spanish-American War. Pitzer described how the term was used, by both sides, for the camps where the opposing forces interned civilian from enemy nations caught within their borders by the outbreak of World War I.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrea Pitzer. One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Little, Brown. Retrieved on 2019-07-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Masha Gessen. The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps, New Yorker magazine, 2019-06-21. Retrieved on 2019-07-17. “Pitzer argued that "mass detention of civilians without a trial" was what made the camps concentration camps.”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jack Holmes. An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border: "Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz.", Esquire magazine, 2019-06-13. Retrieved on 2019-07-17. “But while the world-historical horrors of the Holocaust are unmatched, they are only the most extreme and inhuman manifestation of a concentration-camp system—which, according to Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, has a more global definition.”
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'concentration camp' debate, explained, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 19, 2019. Retrieved on June 25, 2019.