[forgotten man]

I read that Hitler got the idea of concentration camps from the English, who put the Afrikaners into concentration camps during the Boer war. I also read that as a boy Hitler and other German kids liked to play cowboys and Indians like American kids did. The American Indians also used the a symbol identical to the swastika.

[miss marmelstein]

Yes! The Krauts at that time loved cowboys and Indians and played games. There was an author - Karl something or other who wrote novels about the Old West which inspired these brats. But that doesn't lead to Auschwitz, of course. As another freeper said, the idea of a camp ain't anything new or original.