PBS Origins 's video: Concentration Camps Are Older Than World War II

We're all familiar with the haunting images of the concentration camps of World War II. But the history of those concentration camps extends back to the late 19th. century and the invention of barbed wire and automatic rifle. Today Danielle looks at the grim origin of concentration and internment camps and the various countries (including Spain, Great Britain, and the United States), who used similar tactic long before the Nazi Regime. Special thanks to our Historian Harry Brisson on Patreon! Join him at https://www.patreon.com/originofeverything Created and Hosted by Danielle Bainbridge Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios --- Follow us on... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/originofeverythingpbs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pbsoriginofeverything/?hl=en --- Origin of Everything is a show about the undertold histories and cultural dialogues that make up our collective story. From the food we eat, to the trivia and fun facts we can’t seem to get out of our heads, to the social issues we can’t stop debating, everything around us has a history. Origin of Everything is here to explore it all. We like to think that no topic is too small or too challenging to get started. Works Cited: General History https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/concentration-camps-existed-long-before-Auschwitz-180967049/ Iain R. Smith & Andreas Stucki (2011) The Colonial Development of Concentration Camps (1868–1902), The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 39:3, 417-437, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2011.598746 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2011.598746) Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano. A Race so Different: Performance and Law in Asian America. New York University Press, 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/auschwitz-short-history-liberation-concentration-camp-holocaust http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/liberation_camps_01.shtml https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/ https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/spanish-american-war https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/a-brief-history-of-the-assault-rifle/489428/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/joseph-glidden-applies-for-a-patent-on-his-barbed-wire-design https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/firearms https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/history-legal-status-pows.htm https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/auschwitz https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/injustice-japanese-americans-internment-camps-resonates-strongly-180961422/ ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims https://nyti.ms/379s0ch Aung San Suu Kyi Defends Myanmar Against Rohingya Genocide Accusations https://nyti.ms/36pxA9q In Myanmar Army’s Corner, Aung San Suu Kyi Will Defend It in Rohingya Genocide Case https://nyti.ms/2YABF7H https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/why-we-should-stop-saying-japanese-americans-were-interned-in-world-war-ii/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fdr-called-them-concentration-camps-why-terminology_b_58a7f3b6e4b026a89a7a2b73 https://densho.org/ Valeriano Weyler https://www.nytimes.com/1910/08/14/archives/gen-weylers-book-justifies-our-intervention-in-cuba-my-command-in.html?searchResultPosition=8 https://www.nytimes.com/1898/05/03/archives/gen-weyler-unrelenting-he-is-quoted-as-saying-he-has-lost-no-sleep.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://www.nytimes.com/1910/08/06/archives/weylers-career-in-cuba-his-reconcentrado-plan-did-much-to-bring-on.html?searchResultPosition=3 Arsenio Martínez Campos https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/10/18/a-history-of-horror/