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Thread #125033   Message #2766652
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Nov-09 - 06:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Lest we forget - UK scouts antisemitism
Subject: RE: BS: Lest we forget - UK scouts antisemitism
The British did indeed set up concentration camps for Boer civilians, and an estimated 26,000 interned women and children died in them. (And an estimated 14,000 Africans died in separate camps.) But I've never heard Baden-Powell was involved in that.

Incidentally, the first "reconcentrados" were set up by General Valeriano Weyler in Cuba in 1895.