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2024-07-01 12:23:37 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C352A3173BCCBE85B1CE4E60367E9D59DC53480C51E7079FD3982BE07A11C8EC
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Original Note:
Despite the link in the popular imagination between “concentration camp” and the horrors of Nazi Germany, they were not a Nazi invention. The Cuban camps in the late 1800s were as OP describes, for isolating local people while mopping up a rebellion. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/concentration-camps-existed-long-before-Auschwitz-180967049/
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