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'''Concentration camp'''s were camps the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Nazi Germany]] set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the regime.  The term '''concentration camp''' was coined by Soviet Communist Party General Secreary [[Vladimir Lenin]] in a letter of 9 August 1918 in which he state,
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Originally developed by the British during the Boer War, concentration camps were camps the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Nazi Germany]] set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the regime.  The term '''concentration camp''' was coined by Soviet Communist Party General Secreary [[Vladimir Lenin]] in a letter of 9 August 1918 in which he state,
  
 
{{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>}}
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The Soviet gulags were forced labour camps, mainly in the remote regions of [[Siberia]] and the Far North. By 1934, the gulags held several million inmates (political prisoners and ordinary criminals alike) and the Soviet economy was dependent upon  this vast pool of [[slave]] labour from the [[lumpen masses]] and [[counterrevolutionaries]]. Conditions were brutal: prisoners received insufficient food and clothing to cope with the long working hours and severe weather, resulting in high death rates from exhaustion and disease. <ref>http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/gula.html</ref>  
 
The Soviet gulags were forced labour camps, mainly in the remote regions of [[Siberia]] and the Far North. By 1934, the gulags held several million inmates (political prisoners and ordinary criminals alike) and the Soviet economy was dependent upon  this vast pool of [[slave]] labour from the [[lumpen masses]] and [[counterrevolutionaries]]. Conditions were brutal: prisoners received insufficient food and clothing to cope with the long working hours and severe weather, resulting in high death rates from exhaustion and disease. <ref>http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/gula.html</ref>  
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The Bosnian Serbs also maintained concentration camps at Omarska for Bosnian Muslims during the Yugoslavian civil wars of the 1990s. (see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1633582.stm)
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==

Revision as of 02:00, May 21, 2007

Originally developed by the British during the Boer War, concentration camps were camps the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the regime. The term concentration camp was coined by Soviet Communist Party General Secreary Vladimir Lenin in a letter of 9 August 1918 in which he state,


“ 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" [1] ”

The Soviet Union created the world's first concentration camp system with a network of prisons and labor camps. [2] Adolf Hitler, in responding to a question from a German industrial as to how he planned to deal with unemployment prior to assuiming power in Nazi Germany, responded "concentration camps". The Soviet Gulag system was copied in Nazi 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, tortured and murdered there.[3] Although Hitler was primarily focused on the extermination of the Jews, Christians, gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and communists also met with similar fates in the Nazi camps.

The Soviet gulags were forced labour camps, mainly in the remote regions of Siberia and the Far North. By 1934, the gulags held several million inmates (political prisoners and ordinary criminals alike) and the Soviet economy was dependent upon this vast pool of slave labour from the lumpen masses and counterrevolutionaries. Conditions were brutal: prisoners received insufficient food and clothing to cope with the long working hours and severe weather, resulting in high death rates from exhaustion and disease. [4]


The Bosnian Serbs also maintained concentration camps at Omarska for Bosnian Muslims during the Yugoslavian civil wars of the 1990s. (see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1633582.stm)

References

  1. ↑ Geoffrey Hosking, A History of the Soviet Union, 1992, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Dmitri Volkogonov, Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, Translation by Harold Shukman, The Free PRess, New York, 1996.
  3. ↑ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31
  4. ↑ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/gula.html

Further reading

  • Gregory L. Freeze, ed, Russia: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 253.

External links

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