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Scorched Earth

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NPR

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.715K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The term "concentration camp" is most associated with Nazi Germany and the systematic killing of Jews during World War II. But colonial powers used concentration camps at the turn of the 19th century to crush rebellions. In this episode, how a war between Britain and South African Boers gave rise to some of the first camps.

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Imagine you are fighting in a war.

0:05.0

Against a force ten times, hundred times greater than you.

0:10.0

And then suddenly they take your mother, your sister, your wife and all your children

0:16.0

and you lose every single thing you've ever owned.

0:19.0

They put them in a concentration camp where there's no clean water.

0:23.0

There are no candles, they're no blankets.

0:25.0

The distance, which is scorchingly hot during the day and during the evening,

0:30.0

it's so cold, your children are dying.

0:33.0

What are you going to do?

0:35.0

Are you going to continue fighting?

0:41.0

Is the Trump administration currently running concentration camps at the border?

0:45.0

People saying that families and children are being held in concentration camps is an outrage.

0:50.0

Any member who suggested that she did that the camps in the U.S. border are concentration camps,

0:56.0

but that's a comment that is clearly ludicrous.

0:59.0

Now we're done, you call the staff!

1:01.0

Now we're done!

1:02.0

Some of remarkably, this is a debate we are not having in this the year 2019.

1:06.0

Now we're done, you call the staff!

1:08.0

Now we're done, you're now!

1:11.0

You're listening to Thru Line from NPR.

1:14.0

Will we go back in time?

1:16.0

To understand the present.

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