Literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[thesummerqueen]

There's a difference between putting people in camps, and lining people up along pits after stripping them naked and mowing them down with guns to be covered over with dirt thereafter.

It's hard to think we have to discuss where the differences lie. Things happen in wars. I don't necessarily agree with them or find them ethical. But what the Nazis did, and the Germans who participated and those who stayed silent and helped by default, was reprehensible on a level that war crimes don't match. The scales are extremely unbalanced on that end.

[frankiej]

There's a difference between putting people in camps, and lining people up along pits after stripping them naked and mowing them down with guns to be covered over with dirt thereafter.

Is there? I know that every time I have been camping it has been like that.

[thesummerqueen]

^^ And then there's camping Bruce Campbell style.

[frankiej]

Even the mention of Bruce Campbell makes me weak at the knees

[houseofcantor]

Nah, man... God cannot exist - that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

This stuff is just ignorance. Anybody wanna say something other than Himmler ain't really saying much; anybody wanna wonder how civilization can become so fucking uncivilized can just look at this fucking place. I'm not American in the sense of my fuckwad government, that's for sure.

[Doubting Thomas]

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pear Harbor?" - John "Bluto" Blutarsky, Animal House

[R-e-n-n-a-t]

Well...

I sooooo hope you're confusing WW1 and WW2.

[Cyberman]

Well, basically what I meant is that the phrase "concentration camp" generally tends to invoke the image of the Nazi death camps, without which the Holocaust, at least on such a scale, would not have been feasible. I thought that perhaps this was the motivation behind the idea of the British being responsible for the genocide. I apologise if you think this is silly.

Except the concentration camps were not the same as the death camps

No, of course not, I hoped to convey that distinction through my choice of phrasing. Perhaps I could have chosen better.

[KichigaiNeko]

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Well, basically what I meant is that the phrase "concentration camp" generally tends to invoke the image of the Nazi death camps, without which the Holocaust, at least on such a scale, would not have been feasible. I thought that perhaps this was the motivation behind the idea of the British being responsible for the genocide. I apologise if you think this is silly.

Except the concentration camps were not the same as the death camps

No, of course not, I hoped to convey that distinction through my choice of phrasing. Perhaps I could have chosen better.

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[Zen Badger]

Well, basically what I meant is that the phrase "concentration camp" generally tends to invoke the image of the Nazi death camps, without which the Holocaust, at least on such a scale, would not have been feasible. I thought that perhaps this was the motivation behind the idea of the British being responsible for the genocide. I apologise if you think this is silly.

Except the concentration camps were not the same as the death camps

No, of course not, I hoped to convey that distinction through my choice of phrasing. Perhaps I could have chosen better.

That's cool, a lot of people though don't realise that there is a difference.

The Nazi's did have concentration camps, Dachau probably being the most famous and later mass executions were carried out there.

But they were originally set up for holding political prisoners.

Auschwitz and the like were built specifically as extermination factories.