Most of the inmates of the British concentration camps for Boers in the Boer War (1899-1902) were Afrikaner women and children. About 26,000 of the 127,000 imprisoned perished. It is a shameful chapter in British history.
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Boer War. As their name implies, it was the most efficient way of holding the maximum number of prisoners with the smallest number of guards. For the reasons why the Nazis set up concentration camps see the related question.
The term Concentration camp was first used by the British in the Boer wars. this was very different form the concentration camps used in Nazi Germany. they were not death camps but camps in which the family of Boer rebels were imprisoned so that they could not aid the rebels. However concentration camps have been used before this (only they were not called concentration camps) they were used by the Spanish in the 1860's even American soldiers used similar camps on Cherokee and other native Americans in the 1830's so this type of military tactic has been around for a long time, but the term is British. Evidently, there are no real differences, but rather there are similarities between the English and the German concentration camps.
The term was first used of the camps established by the British in the Boer War in 1900-1902. Please see the link.
The earliest ones was minor ones which was in 1938. They were used until the end of the war in 1945. The exact number is disputed from 1,200 to over 15,000.
The British during the second Boer War.
Most of the inmates of the British concentration camps for Boers in the Boer War (1899-1902) were Afrikaner women and children. About 26,000 of the 127,000 imprisoned perished. It is a shameful chapter in British history.
Concentration camps are a British invention and were first used to house Boer prisoners during the Boer War in South Africa.
Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Boer War. As their name implies, it was the most efficient way of holding the maximum number of prisoners with the smallest number of guards. For the reasons why the Nazis set up concentration camps see the related question.
The British won the Boer War against the Afrikaners (Boers) in 1902, after the Boers surrendered because at that point already more than 28000 of they're women and children died in Brittish concentration camps.
The term Concentration camp was first used by the British in the Boer wars. this was very different form the concentration camps used in Nazi Germany. they were not death camps but camps in which the family of Boer rebels were imprisoned so that they could not aid the rebels. However concentration camps have been used before this (only they were not called concentration camps) they were used by the Spanish in the 1860's even American soldiers used similar camps on Cherokee and other native Americans in the 1830's so this type of military tactic has been around for a long time, but the term is British. Evidently, there are no real differences, but rather there are similarities between the English and the German concentration camps.
Conditions deteriorated rapidly and over 20% of the prisoners died of malnutrition and/or disease.
Yes, many people were captured and both sides had prisons that were bad enough to be termed 'concentration camps'.
Concentration Camps
The term was first used of the camps established by the British in the Boer War in 1900-1902. Please see the link.
"Scorched earth" policies (burning homes and farms so that they had no food) and concentration camps.
The earliest ones was minor ones which was in 1938. They were used until the end of the war in 1945. The exact number is disputed from 1,200 to over 15,000.