- Summary
- For many of us, the very expression 'Concentration Camp' is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans, who were the chief driving force behind the development and use of concentration camps in the Twentieth Century. The operation by the British army of concentration camps during the Boer War led to the deaths of tens of thousands of children from starvation and disease. More recently, slave-labourers confined in a nationwide network of camps played an integral role in Britain's post-war prosperity. In 1947, a quarter of the country's agricultural workforce were prisoners in labour camps. Not only did the British government run their own concentration camps, they willingly acquiesced in the setting up of such establishments in the United Kingdom by other countries. During and after the Second World War, the Polish government-in-exile maintained a number of camps in Scotland where Jews, communists and homosexuals were imprisoned and sometimes killed. This book tells the terrible story of Britain's involvement in the use of concentration camps, which did not finally end until the last political prisoners being held behind barbed wire in the United Kingdom were released in 1975. From England to Cyprus, Scotland to Malaya, Kenya to Northern Ireland; British Concentration Camps; A Brief History from 1900 to 1975 details some of the most shocking and least known events in British history -- Source other than Library of Congress.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Webb, Simon, 1954- author.
- Published
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2016
- Locale
- Great Britain
- Contents
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 1896 A Prussian General's Idea: The Origin and Nature of Concentration Camps
ch. 2 1900
1902 Lord Kitchener's Genocide: `Methods of Barbarism' in the Boer War
ch. 3 1914
1918 England, Scotland and Wales: Three Different Kinds of Concentration Camp of the First World War
Frongoch: The Republican University
The Concentration Camps for `Aliens'
The Home Office Work Camps
ch. 4 1929
1938 `Work Sets you Free': The British Labour Camps of the Inter-War Years
ch. 5 1940
1946 They must have known! The Polish Concentration Camps in Britain
ch. 6 1945
1948 Crimes Against Humanity: Slave Labour Camps in Post-War Britain
ch. 7 1945
1949 Locking up Holocaust Survivors: The Concentration Camps in Cyprus
ch. 8 1948
1960 Calling a Spade a Manual Digging Implement: The Malayan Emergency
ch. 9 1952
1960 The Mau Mau Rising: A Million People in Concentration Camps
Note continued: ch. 10 1971
1975 Operation Demetrious and the Five Techniques: The Detention and Torture of Political Prisoners in Northern Ireland.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index.
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 1896 A Prussian General's Idea: The Origin and Nature of Concentration Camps -- ch. 2 1900 -- 1902 Lord Kitchener's Genocide: `Methods of Barbarism' in the Boer War -- ch. 3 1914 -- 1918 England, Scotland and Wales: Three Different Kinds of Concentration Camp of the First World War -- Frongoch: The Republican University -- The Concentration Camps for `Aliens' -- The Home Office Work Camps -- ch. 4 1929 -- 1938 `Work Sets you Free': The British Labour Camps of the Inter-War Years -- ch. 5 1940 -- 1946 They must have known! The Polish Concentration Camps in Britain -- ch. 6 1945 -- 1948 Crimes Against Humanity: Slave Labour Camps in Post-War Britain -- ch. 7 1945 -- 1949 Locking up Holocaust Survivors: The Concentration Camps in Cyprus -- ch. 8 1948 -- 1960 Calling a Spade a Manual Digging Implement: The Malayan Emergency -- ch. 9 1952 -- 1960 The Mau Mau Rising: A Million People in Concentration Camps
Note continued: ch. 10 1971 -- 1975 Operation Demetrious and the Five Techniques: The Detention and Torture of Political Prisoners in Northern Ireland.
