Boer War concentration camps preceded Hitler’s extermination camps

Evidence

It was a brutal war in which British troops fought Boer guerrillas. The British burnt down thousands of Boer farms, slaughtering people and cattle as they swept through the land. Tens of thousands of Boer civilians, mostly women and children, were moved into concentration camps, in which almost thirty thousand people died. Many simply starved to death. These concentration camps were the first of their kind, the progenitors of Hitler’s extermination camps for Jews. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 193

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• XREF: Relevant to reading on Gandhi’s moral example to Jews; editorial claim draws a direct lineage Gandhi would later cite for satyagraha reasoning.