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To: DesertRhino
The German Uhlans bayoneted and raped Belgian citizens.

The British and French did nothing of the sort. They might not have had the same level of suffrage as the Germans, but they didn't, you know, bayonet women and children.

Also: the concentration camp was developed in America - they were set up for Cherokee and other Native Americans in the 1830s.

Neither the Indian camps nor the concentration camps of the Boer wars were designed as death camps: those that suffered from high death rates did so because of cholera, not due to deliberate attempts at genocide.

Hope this was helpful.

43 posted on 09/28/2010 7:49:22 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: agere_contra

A Polish historian believes that the first concentration camps were created in Poland in the 18th century when the Russian Empire established three concentration camps for Polish rebel captives awaiting deportation to Siberia.


51 posted on 09/28/2010 8:04:38 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: agere_contra

“but they didn’t, you know, bayonet women and children.”

Please,, no serious scholar anywhere today thinks the “rape of Belgium” is anything more than British propaganda.

The Germans went through Belgium to outflank the French and it worked. They didnt care about Belgium. The British were using the attack *through* Belgium as a cause to go to war. They were trying to bolster their case with fake stories of widespread atrocities that are so provably wrong today as to nearly be laughable.

And the world believed the British, because as you know,, they were a *highly* moral nation back then and would NEVER lie./

(just like they wouldn’t stuff passenger liners full of war cargo, knowing it would make the passengers likely to be attacked by submarine, and help drag the USA into the war)


63 posted on 09/28/2010 8:21:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: agere_contra

I heard they ATE women and children and liked to drink a cold glass of blood for breakfast.


92 posted on 09/28/2010 11:03:05 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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