Were concentration camps first used in World War II?
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The term was first used to describe prison camps used by the Spanish military during the Cuban insurrection (1868-78), those created by America in the Philippines (1898-1901), and, most widely, to refer to British camps built during the South African War (Boer War) to confine Afrikaners in the Transvaal and Cape Colony (1899—1902). The term soon took on much darker meanings. In the USSR, the Gulag elaborated on the concept beginning as early as 1920. After 1928, millions of opponents of Soviet collectivization as well as common criminals were imprisoned under extremely harsh conditions and many died.
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