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The British authorities controversially used concentration camps for civilians during the Boer War (1899-1902) in Southern Africa. The reason was to deprive Boer guerrilla fighters of logistical support and...

An April 1945 photograph of a mass grave at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a labour camp in Germany run by the Nazi SS. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph taken in April 1945 following the Allied capture of the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany. The 13,000 bodies Allied soldiers found were to be buried in mass graves...

A Second World War (1939-45) photograph of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau in Germany, taken during an American reconnaissance flight.

British concentration camp at Barberton during the Boer War (1899-1902), photograph by E.W. Byerley Ptoto, c. 1901. LSE Library, London.

Two survivors prepare and share food outside the barracks after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in May 1945 by U.S. forces. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

British concentration camp at Bloemfontein during the Boer War (1899-1902). The UK National Archives.

A route within the Soluch (Suluq) concentration camp, which had circa 20.123 Libyan prisoners by 1931. Soluch is one of 19 concentration camps established by the Italian authorities on the orders of General Rodolfo...

Auschwitz was a concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland operated by the Nazi SS from 1940 to 1945. Around 1.1 million people died at the Auschwitz complex from overwork, malnutrition, disease, and in the gas...

The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jewish people by the SS, Gestapo, and other organisations of Nazi Germany and its allies in the years prior to and through the Second World War (1939-45). Innocent men...