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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Concentration Camps
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 03:36:23 EST
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> [J. Nunes]
> Regarding current talk on concentration camps in Northern Ireland vs.
> concentration camps in Nazi Germany: There were two types of camps installed
> in Germany during Nazi rule. Concentration camps, which were basically jails
> (like I assume the one in Northern Ireland is). And extermination camps, which
> had the function the name implies. Through time the term "concentration camp"
> has taken the connotation of both.
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Mr. Nunes is only partially correct.  There was a real distinction between
the two types of camps in Nazi Germany, but during the war many tens of
thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of prisoners in CONCENTRATION
camps (e. g. Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, etc.) were deliberately worked
or starved to death.  There is no comparison to Northern Ireland, even if
we ignore the EXTERMINATION camps (Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno,
Belzec).
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan