Slop.

The answer is Oklahoma. They made a big blob around where Oklahoma is now, called it "Indian Territory" and forced the natives to go live in an inhospitable shithole alongside other groups they might have hated. We will never know exactly how many died. We will never know the true cultural loss and impact. They didn't care to write it down. What they did care about was continuing to shrink the territory via expansion for decades until they found oil and other shit and voila it became a state.

Okay found the energy for snark: you don't do it in your own country but then later you annex it to make it your country.

Because

The German one isn’t even true either. The first camp built on (back then) Polish grounds was Auschwitz in 1940. But there were already 62 camps built before that.

oh so the Germans deported the communists and trade unionists to playgrounds right up until 1939 right? couldn't have been concentration camps, they had to wait to invade Poland first according to this genius

Goddamn, I hate AI art.

"Its not a concentration camp if a democrat built it"

First nazi camp was in Dachau, built in 1933 in Bavaria, and there were many more opened before the ones in Poland. And even that was long after first German one in Namibia.

The actual first was in Namibia, right?

what is a prison? what is a plantation?

I went to secondary school in murica.

In a class that covered murican history 1850-present, we were told by the teacher that the Japanese-muricans living in murica that were interned in murica during WW2 were put in re-concentration camps. They were not put in concentration camps. The teacher said if you wrote concentration camp on the test, you would be marked wrong.

Much later, I met a person that had a family member in one of those concentration camps. That family member got a nickname because they were good at running out of the camp, stealing food, and coming back to feed their fellow concentration campers.

So yes, according to that teacher and if I had to guess their opinion, El Salvador's prison is likely the first concentration camp in murican history.

The teacher's dead now. Fuck him.

Am I the only American who learned about our concentration camps in the Philippines during high school?!

Edit: actually I can't recall if that was in the lessons or self-taught... My Lai at least was... Damn memory

Guantanamo out here like, am i chopped liver?

We have plenty of concentration camps at home, they are called prisons.

i love the liberal Holocaust revisionism that exists to give them plausible deniability to everything democrats did before