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NoCSForYou t1_ivelawx wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire by lanzkron

Internment and concentration camps are the same thing.

> "for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order."

There is a difference between death camps and internment/concentration.

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God_Damnit_Nappa t1_ivfcyd4 wrote

That guy and the people that upvoted him clearly want our past in the west to be whitewashed. Concentration camp carries a negative connotation due to the Nazis but the internment camps we had are the literal definition of them. Internment is just a euphemism so people don't associate them with the death camps.

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