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British Concentration Camps - A Brief History from 1900 1975 (Paperback)
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British Concentration Camps - A Brief History from 1900 1975 (Paperback)
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For many of us, the very expression Concentration Camp is
inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the
Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and
unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the
Germans, who were the chief driving force behind the development
and use of concentration camps in the Twentieth Century. The
operation by the British army of concentration camps during the
Boer War led to the deaths of tens of thousands of children from
starvation and disease. More recently, slave-labourers confined in
a nationwide network of camps played an integral role in Britains
post-war prosperity. In 1947, a quarter of the countrys
agricultural workforce were prisoners in labour camps. Not only did
the British government run their own concentration camps, they
willingly acquiesced in the setting up of such establishments in
the United Kingdom by other countries. During and after the Second
World War, the Polish government-in-exile maintained a number of
camps in Scotland where Jews, communists and homosexuals were
imprisoned and sometimes killed. This book tells the terrible story
of Britains involvement in the use of concentration camps, which
did not finally end until the last political prisoners being held
behind barbed wire in the United Kingdom were released in 1975\.
From England to Cyprus, Scotland to Malaya, Kenya to Northern
Ireland; British Concentration Camps; A Brief History from 1900 to
1975 details some of the most shocking and least known events in
British history.
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