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J. Rock's avatar

Actually, the term goes back to the British during the South African or Boer War. From the Encyclopedia Britannica:

During war, civilians have been concentrated in camps to prevent them from engaging in guerrilla warfare or providing aid to enemy forces or simply as a means of terrorizing the populace into submission. During the South African War (1899–1902) the British confined noncombatants of the republics of Transvaal and Cape Colony in concentration camps.

Hitler knew a good idea when he saw it.

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julia eden's avatar

could you have put "good" as in 'a good idea' in quotation marks?

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