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{{Cquote|It is essential to organise a reinforced guard of reliable persons to carry out mass terror against [[kulaks]], priests and White Guardists; unreliable elements should be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town" <ref>Geoffrey Hosking, A History of the Soviet Union, 1992, p. 71.</ref>}}

{{Cquote|It is essential to organise a reinforced guard of reliable persons to carry out mass terror against [[kulaks]], priests and White Guardists; unreliable elements should be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town" <ref>Geoffrey Hosking, A History of the Soviet Union, 1992, p. 71.</ref>}}

The [[Soviet Union]] created the world's first concentration camp system with a network of prisons and labor camps.<ref>Dmitri Volkogonov, ''Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary'', Translation by Harold Shukman, The Free PRess, New York, 1996.</ref> Adolf Hitler, in responding to a question from a German industrial as to how he planned to deal with unemployment prior to assuming power in [[Nazi Germany]], responded, "Concentration camps".<ref>Gunther, John, ''Inside Europe'', New York: Harper, 1939.</ref>  The Soviet [[Gulag]] system was copied in National Socialist Germany and raised to profound horrors never before thought imaginable: death factories.

The first concentration camps in modern times were implemented in Cuba in 1896 under the command of Spanish General Valeriano Weyler, during the war with Cuba.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/crucible/tl4.html February, 1896: Reconcentration Policy]</ref>

 

In peacetime, the [[Soviet Union]] created the world's first concentration camp system with a network of prisons and labor camps intended for use on its own people.<ref>Dmitri Volkogonov, ''Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary'', Translation by Harold Shukman, The Free PRess, New York, 1996.</ref> Adolf Hitler, in responding to a question from a German industrial as to how he planned to deal with unemployment prior to assuming power in [[Nazi Germany]], responded, "Concentration camps".<ref>Gunther, John, ''Inside Europe'', New York: Harper, 1939.</ref>  The Soviet [[Gulag]] system was copied in National Socialist Germany and raised to profound horrors never before thought imaginable: death factories.

[[Auschwitz]], for example, achieved [[murder]] on an industrial scale. During [[World War II]], 1.5 million people were systematically starved, [[torture]]d, and murdered there.<ref>http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31</ref> Although [[Hitler]] was primarily focused on the extermination of the [[Jews]]; [[Christian]]s, [[Gypsy|gypsies]], [[Slavs]], [[homosexuals]], and [[Communism|communists]] also met with similar fates in the National Socialist camps. Famous National Socialist concentration camps include [[Auschwitz]], [[Bergen-Belsen]], [[Buchenwald]] and [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]].

[[Auschwitz]], for example, achieved [[murder]] on an industrial scale. During [[World War II]], 1.5 million people were systematically starved, [[torture]]d, and murdered there.<ref>http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31</ref> Although [[Hitler]] was primarily focused on the extermination of the [[Jews]]; [[Christian]]s, [[Gypsy|gypsies]], [[Slavs]], [[homosexuals]], and [[Communism|communists]] also met with similar fates in the National Socialist camps. Famous National Socialist concentration camps include [[Auschwitz]], [[Bergen-Belsen]], [[Buchenwald]] and [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]].