i hate how a key part of these asshole's communications strategy is to pretend like history began right where they started paying attention.

the term "concentration camp" was around before the nazis. it originated with the war of cuban independence in the mid 1860s, when the colonial project began detaining civilians in camps. they called them reconcentrados, which was translated into english as "concentration camp".

the phenomenon, of course, existed prior. and the specific term was used in english by americans to describe their own usage of them during the Phillipine-American War (~1900). also used in english, by the british, to describe them being deployed by the british in the boer war.

it's an instructive term to study because they are clearly a tool used by colonial projects to control populations that are inconvenient, revealing the truth to the analysis (fascism is colonial suppression turned inward) that the nazi project was so reviled by europeans, not because of what it did to humans, but because it did it in europe to europeans.

nobody gave a shit when germany used them in southwest africa to exterminate indigenous pastoralists. and now white supremacists are trying to pretend that the term is trademarked and only narrowly applies to a single historical moment because any critical examination of the material processes would blow up in their face.