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Concentration Camps Are Back, So Let's Talk About Their History

Behind the Bastards

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Concentration Camps in Malay

During World War one, the British built concentration camps for German citizens who had been captured on boats or who just happened to be in England when the war started. Many of these people were forced to labor in British fields. In 1940, with fears of a German invasion stoking panic, Winston Churchill had every German and Austrian in the country arrested and sent to concentration camps. More than 300,000 people were imprisoned and forced to farm in England up until 1947. While Nazi concentration camp guards were on trial in Nuremberg, the British were using forced civilian labor housed in concentration camps to harvest their crops. This is Monday's episode of The Insane Man podcast which airs at 8 p.m

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