Blah Blah F***in Blah. If Liberals are so ignorant that they don't equate the term concentration camps to Nazi Germany then they are either liars or just ignorant. Funny how fast they can equate Nazi's to every little thing they can think of when it comes to Trump but when they use terms like concentration camps and get called out, you feel the need to host some babble about not all concentrations camps are Nazi camps? They show new levels of stupidity.
Possibly every person alive when they hear the term "Concentration camp", immediately and automatically think of the images of the Nazi 'concentration camps' where millions of Jews were imprisoned and met their deaths. But the term 'concentration camp' is one that predates both Hitler and Communism. The Nazi concentration camps are more accurately described as Death Camps.
The Holocaust Museum defines the Nazi camps:
"The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy."
Joseph Stalin had 'gulags' which were forced labor camps. Stalin's gulags incarcerated about 18 million people throughout their history, operated from the 1920s until shortly after Stalin’s death in 1953. I know this because my father in law was in one of the Siberian gulags and escaped.
The numbers of N. Koreans that Kim Jong-Un has interned in N. Korea are estimated to be between 100,000 to 150,000.
From Wiki: [snip] Conditions inside North Korean prison camps are unsanitary and life-threatening. Prisoners are subject to torture and inhumane treatment. Public and secret executions of prisoners, even children, especially in cases of attempted escape, are commonplace. Infanticides (and infant killings upon birth) also often occur. The mortality rate is very high, because many prisoners die of starvation, illnesses, work accidents, or torture. Many other former prisoners gave detailed and consistent testimonies on the human rights crimes in North Korean prison camps.According to the testimony of former camp guard Ahn Myong Chol of Camp 22, the guards are trained to treat the detainees as sub-human. He gave an account of children in one camp who were fighting over corn retrieved from cow dung.[/snip]
Webster's New World Fourth College Edition defines a concentration camp as, "
A prison camp in which political dissidents, members of minority ethnic groups, etc. are confined."
The Oxford English Dictionary supports Webster's definition and explanation as well.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a concentration camp as, "a camp where non-combatants of a district are accommodated, such as those instituted by Lord Kitchener during the Boer War (1899–1902); one for the internment of political prisoners, foreign nationals, etc., esp. as organized by the Nazi regime in Germany before and during the war of 1939–45."
Nazis put Jews, and millions of non-Jews, into about 20,000 camps during the war. According to the Holocaust Museum, these camps ranged from forced-labor camps where internees worked as slave labor, transit camps that served as holding pins before sending people off to Auschwitz and other places, and extermination camps, or death camps, built primarily for mass murder. Today, we often identify the phrase "concentration camp" with the latter, though the museum itself has a broader definition, and one that may be clearer than either of the dictionary ones.
It doesn't matter what terminology is used for Trump's camps. Call them 'detainment camps', 'internment centers', 'gulags', 'concentration camps' or 'immigrant detention center' or whatever new name you want to create for them, it's only semantics. It doesn't change what they actually are. It means that men, women, children, old, young, newborn or unborn are being held en masse in places where they are not free to leave, kept against their will and where they are vulnerable and highly susceptible to mistreatment, physical or sexual abuse, diseases and even death.
