It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

13297.867 - 13322.575 Robert Evans

The concentration camp as a concept began with what were called Reconcentrados in Cuba at the behest of a Spanish general fighting an insurgency. There were U.S. officers embedded there. They came back and those tactics were adapted for our wars with Native American tribes on the frontiers and the plains. General Sherman was one of the very first Americans to carry out concentration camps.