Concentration camps
From Turtledove
The English term "concentration camp" was first used to describe camps operated by the British in South Africa during the 1899-1902 Second Boer War. The term "concentration camp" was coined at this time to signify the "concentration" of a large number of people in one place, and was used to describe both the camps in South Africa (1899-1902) and those established by the Spanish to support a similar anti-insurgency campaign in Cuba (circa 1895-1898), although at least some Spanish sources disagree with the comparison.
[edit] Concentration Camps in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Even after the known Jews and other "sub-humans" had been wiped out by the Greater German Reich, the concentration camps remained a looming threat for the citizens of Germany.
[edit] Concentration Camps in Southern Victory
Concentration camps appeared in North America in 1934. When Jake Featherston was elected President of the Confederate States in 1933, authorities throughout the country imprisoned opponents of the Freedom Party on a variety of trumped-up charges. Soon jails became overcrowded, and special detention centers such as Camp Dependable in Louisiana were set up to accomodate political prisoners. (Somewhat ironically, Louisiana governnor Huey Long had established Camp Dependable to imprison Freedomites.) Blacks captured conducting guerrilla operations were imprisoned in these camps. These also became overcrowded, under the guise of "population control", Confederate authorities began executing black prisoners. Ferdinand Koenig was inspired to use these centers to execute blacks en masse as the centerpiece of Featherston's Population Reduction. Concentration camps evolved from these detention centers, and in 1942 the massive Camp Determination opened in west Texas under the command of Jefferson Pinkard.
[edit] Concentration Camps in Worldwar
Concentration camps were institutions within Germany's territory wherein many sorts of "enemies of the state" were executed en masse, most notably the Jews.
During Germany's first war against the Race, one such camp, Treblinka, was overrun and liberated early in the war by the Race. They were horrified with what they found.
Operation of the concentration camps was temporarily suspended during that war, when extreme personnel and materiel shortages made their continued operation unfeasible. Unfortunately, operations resumed once the war ended with the peace conference at Cairo. Johannes Drucker's wife was briefly imprisoned in a concentration camp in the early 1960s when she was suspected of having a Jewish grandmother.
