concentration camps?

Yup, sounds bad.

My Grandfather told me a few things about his time in the Russian camps, sounded he was talking about a German Camp too.
Poor food( tiny slice of bread and a cup of soup/stew), prisoners being transfered to other "camps" in trucks that had NO exhaust pipes, etc.

Didn't know about Andersonville but than US history for us was more of a side-subject, we had 3000yrs of european & middle eastern history to cover.
20th Century history was a separate class.

Andersonville was during the American Civil War 1864-1865, and it was called a prison camp but was later understood as being a concentration camp. Here is a bit of info, take a look it is a bit shocking.

http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/98_99/CW/andersonville/intro.htm

Scroll to the bottom of this article and check out what it was like, Just like the Nazi's prisoners!
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWandersonville.htm

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big Jake If I remember my history timeline, was Andersonville before the Boer-War? That was a hell hole based on records!

Lost me there, the Boer War was 1899 ~ 1902 .

But some say that it was the Spanish that used it and the term during the Cuban insurrection(1868~1878) that had one before it and the next one was by America in the Philippines(1898).


Either way it has quiet a long history, pity is that the term "Concentration Camp" is now often mistakenly used to refer to "Death Camps" as well.

.

MadModelFactory,

If I remember my history timeline, was Andersonville before the Boer-War?

That was a hell hole based on records!

I once did one for the Boer-war, first concentration camp ever.
Thanks, to our british compratriots for inventing the concept.

Tempted on doing a Russian one my grandfather when he was still alive talked to me alot about his time in one.

OTOH, doing a japanese one might be interesting too. Now where to get hold of 1/35 figures of Takeshi Beat & David Bowie.

I am not sure but Dave posted a link to a nice dio about German Jews being lead to a train. It is somewhere in the past diorama pages I suppose.