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One Long Night
One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps | Andrea Pitzer
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A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again." In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century.
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keithmalek
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Lcsmcat I‘m not sure how I feel about that. I can see the point, but also, who decides who gets to claim a word? Much food for thought there. 5y
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keithmalek
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The use of the census to throw people into concentration camps. Why, that would never happen here!

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Karisa 😥 5y
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keithmalek
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This has been on my TBR for a couple of years now. But now that we actually have concentration camps along the southern border of the former United States, reading this took on a sense of urgency. By the way, I recently heard the author of this book say on NPR that the so-called "detention facilities" that we now have in this country are indeed concentration camps.

Julsmarshall 😥 It is unconscionable. 5y
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I haven‘t been participating in #novemberbythenumbers, but this book has been on the front display at work all month. Every time I pass by it, I think about taking a picture for the challenge. Yes, I know I‘m ten days late! I hadn‘t looked at it closely until I took the picture, but it‘s about the history of concentration camps. No wonder it‘s been on the display for awhile.

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Before reading One Long Night I was totally ignorant of the history of concentration camps. It always throws me how many things we're introduced to as a then-this-happened/someone-had-this-idea twist in school but when studying it's always a progression by different people in different places. Anyway, this book is amazing and I think I cried three times but I still highly recommend.

Cinfhen This sounds brutal 💔 6y
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