Who set up the first concentration camps, and where
and when?
7. Who set up the first concentration camps, and where and when?
The IHR says:
The first use of concentration camps in the Western world was apparently
in America during the Revolutionary War. The British interned thousands of
Americans, many of whom died of disease and beatings. Andrew Jackson and
his brother -- who died -- were two. Later the British set up concentration
camps in South Africa to hold Afrikaner women and children during their
conquest of that country (the Boer War). Tens of thousands died in these
hell-holes, which were far worse than any German concentration camp of
WWII.
Nizkor replies:
Irrelevant to the issue of the Holocaust, except for the last sentence,
which is an absurdity. Even Holocaust-deniers have to admit that hundreds
of thousands of prisoners died in Nazi camps -- see their answer to
question 36. Another internal contradiction.
The IHR wishes to whitewash the Nazis' crimes by comparing them to
other evils. We will not take part in this moral relativism, but will
merely present the historical facts about the Nazis and let the reader
make up his or her own mind.
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