Wednesday, May 2, 2012

How the treatment of the jews & Native Americans Similar ? How there are different ?

There are similar because On 20 March 1933, Heinriuch Himmler announced to the press that 'a concentration camp for political prisoners would be opened at Dachau, just outside Munich. It was to be Germany's first concentration camp, and it set an ominous precedent for the future. Himmler's act set a widely imitated precedent. Soon,concentraation camps were opening up all over the country, augmenting the makeshift gaols and torture centres set up by the brown-shirts in the cellers of recently captured trade union offices. The idea of setting up camps to house real or supposed enemies of the state was not in itself, of course new. The British had used such camps for civilians on the opposing side in the Boer War, (1899-1901) in which conditions were often very poor and death rates of inmates high. Shortly afterwards, the German army had 'concentrated' 14,000 Herero rebels in camps in South-West Africa during the war of 1904-7, treating them so harshly that 500 were said to be dying every month at the camps in Swakopmund and Luderitz Bay. (Luderitz spelled with two dots above the U) The camps had an eventual death rate of 45 per cent, justified by the German administration in terms of the elimination of 'unproductive elements' in the native population. There were different because They were rounded up by Nazi police and collaborators and put on to train for 3 days and 2 nights. When the train got to the camps, people were hearded over to the entrance. Not only Jews were in the camps, but gays, Christians, and gypsies too. People were split up into two lines, one to go into the gas chamber, and the other to be worked to death, literally. Families were split up. 

 

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