BTW, what this piece of shit brings up here, the claim that the nazis only copied the gulags, is a core concept in postwar nazi apologia. As if Germans would have needed a Soviet institution to copy. Germany already had built death camps when Hitler hadn't even applied to Vienna art school, camps that were not built for reeducation of reactionaries, but for the racist extermination of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. The blueprint for the nazi crimes came from colonizers like von Trotha or Lettow-Vorbeeck, who joined the Freikorps during the Weimar years to apply his murder expertise in the fight against German leftist insurrections. There is a direct line leading from Germany's colonial crimes to the KZ system. German conservatives, even moderate ones, deny this to this day and have recently, in there usual fondness for disgusting lies, tried to paint all postcolonialism as "structurally antisemitc" and as "downplaying the holocaust" while they themselves routinely indulge in the grossest holocaust apologia such as equating the nazi regime with the DDR.
I recently read that the Spanish had concentration camps in the Amerikas before that, and even coined the term, but the British camps were the first in Africa and directly inspired the German camps in Namibia.
BTW, what this piece of shit brings up here, the claim that the nazis only copied the gulags, is a core concept in postwar nazi apologia. As if Germans would have needed a Soviet institution to copy. Germany already had built death camps when Hitler hadn't even applied to Vienna art school, camps that were not built for reeducation of reactionaries, but for the racist extermination of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. The blueprint for the nazi crimes came from colonizers like von Trotha or Lettow-Vorbeeck, who joined the Freikorps during the Weimar years to apply his murder expertise in the fight against German leftist insurrections. There is a direct line leading from Germany's colonial crimes to the KZ system. German conservatives, even moderate ones, deny this to this day and have recently, in there usual fondness for disgusting lies, tried to paint all postcolonialism as "structurally antisemitc" and as "downplaying the holocaust" while they themselves routinely indulge in the grossest holocaust apologia such as equating the nazi regime with the DDR.
The British invented concentration camps during the Boer war
I recently read that the Spanish had concentration camps in the Amerikas before that, and even coined the term, but the British camps were the first in Africa and directly inspired the German camps in Namibia.