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I need this for a history paper, could anyone help me?
I need to know where Hitler learned first about the term concentration camps.He mentioned it first 1921, I know there were spanish "campos de concentración" in the 19th century, but I don't know where Hitler read or heard that term.Does anyone know any book Hitler is known to have read that mentions it or have any other information?Thanks.
Ok, maybe i have to be more precise.This is not for homework, I'm in university and writing my final paper on KZs.If i knew any book that mentions that, I'd read it.
I do know about Concentration camps in history, my question is about where Hitler learned that term?Maybe someone read a biography that mentions that and could give me a reference.
And no, I don't speak italian, sorry.
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I understand what you are asking - looking for verifiable 'linkage' - and that the answer would be very interesting. I don't think you'll find it though... I presume your 1921 reference is good (and that you have a copy of it). I also presume it doesn't give any context that would give you any clues where Hitler 'borrowed' the term from. I'd tend to the view that Hitler would have been aware of the general scandal that followed the British use of concentration camps in South Africa in the Boer War. There would have been numerous newspaper reports from 1902 onwards. The British involvement would have been 'played' up in Germany before and during the First World War as evidence of the barbarity of the British. So essentially I am suggesting that Hitler was probably quoting 'common knowledge' rather than a specific source for his use of the term.
There is a second angle on this though. Hitler might not have been responsible for the use of the term in relation to the camps themselves. We tend to ascribe to Hitler a 'total control and responsibility' for every decision in Nazi Germany (and there are some who encourage that view as it absolves 'everyone else'). I'd suspect that the reality was that some camp commander or middle ranking Nazi official remembered the title and applied it to the camps. The detailed history of the camps might give you a clue. Then of course you'd be chasing two threads, did that Nazi official borrow the term from the British? Or did he borrow it from Hitler's 1921 reference.
I also presume you are chasing this down in the German language, and that concentration camp doesn't have some significance in the German language that points to yet another origin. All I can say is - good luck!
I understand what you are asking - looking for verifiable 'linkage' - and that the answer would be very interesting. I don't think you'll find it though... I presume your 1921 reference is good (and that you have a copy of it). I also presume it doesn't give any context that would give you any clues where Hitler 'borrowed' the term from. I'd tend to the view that Hitler would have been aware of the general scandal that followed the British use of concentration camps in South Africa in the Boer War. There would have been numerous newspaper reports from 1902 onwards. The British involvement would have been 'played' up in Germany before and during the First World War as evidence of the barbarity of the British. So essentially I am suggesting that Hitler was probably quoting 'common knowledge' rather than a specific source for his use of the term.
There is a second angle on this though. Hitler might not have been responsible for the use of the term in relation to the camps themselves. We tend to ascribe to Hitler a 'total control and responsibility' for every decision in Nazi Germany (and there are some who encourage that view as it absolves 'everyone else'). I'd suspect that the reality was that some camp commander or middle ranking Nazi official remembered the title and applied it to the camps. The detailed history of the camps might give you a clue. Then of course you'd be chasing two threads, did that Nazi official borrow the term from the British? Or did he borrow it from Hitler's 1921 reference.
I also presume you are chasing this down in the German language, and that concentration camp doesn't have some significance in the German language that points to yet another origin. All I can say is - good luck!
Is there a possiblity that Hitler might've not committed suicide in 45 and escaped from Germany?
smoochee t
I know it might sound ridiculous but I read about this book (Hitler's Exile) in which it is said that Hitler and Eva Braun escaped to Argentina and then died in the 60s there
Mengele escaped , so did Eichmann..
just how possible is this theory and can it be taken seriously?
just curious about your opinion
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Nope. For three reasons.
It was against his wishes. His entire inner-circle urged him to escape throughout his time in the bunker, but he ignored them all. He chose to remain in Berlin to the end.
Not only that, but the Soviets took back his remains to Russia, which have later been proven to be his when compared to past dental records (as another already pointed out here).
Lastly, there were many eye-witnesses in the bunker who saw Hitler's dead body with Eva Braun.
Nope. For three reasons.
It was against his wishes. His entire inner-circle urged him to escape throughout his time in the bunker, but he ignored them all. He chose to remain in Berlin to the end.
Not only that, but the Soviets took back his remains to Russia, which have later been proven to be his when compared to past dental records (as another already pointed out here).
Lastly, there were many eye-witnesses in the bunker who saw Hitler's dead body with Eva Braun.
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