The first concentration camp prisoners

[Pototan]

were political opponents of Adolf Hitler. Although there were laws being passed in Nazi Germany against Jews, the first people rounded up and sent to Dachau were political opponents of the new Riech.

On assuming power in 1933 the first people the Nazis targeted for arrest and imprisonment were political opponents – primarily communists, trade unionists and social democrats.

Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, was built in March 1933 to imprison political opponents. The Communist Party (KPD) was banned in March 1933, trade unions were disbanded in May and the Social Democrats (SPD) abolished in June. Leaders of these parties and unions were arrested or fled into exile.


https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/political-opponents-and-trade-unionists/

[Wounded Bear]

1. Political opponents and unfriendly journalists...nt

[Irish_Dem]

2. Lucky for them, there are not many Trump media critics.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Not enough, TBS...nt

[Celerity]

4. Although the first example of civilian internment may date as far back as the 1830s, the English term concentration

camp was first used in order to refer to the reconcentration camps (Spanish:reconcentrados) which were set up by the Spanish military in Cuba during the Ten Years' War (1868–1878).

The label was applied yet again to camps set up by the United States during the Philippine–American War (1899–1902).

An expanded usage of the concentration camp label continued, when the British set up camps during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa for interning Boers during the same time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment

School Begins (Puck Magazine 1-25-1899)


Caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines (who appears similar to Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo), Hawaii, Porto[sic] Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelled with various U.S. states. In the background are an American Indian holding a book upside down, a Chinese boy at the door and a black boy cleaning a window. Originally published on p. 8-9 of the January 25, 1899 issue of Puck Magazine.

[bmichaelh]

5. First they came ...

What Republicans do not realize:

Just because Trump does not come for you in the beginning, does not mean he will not come for you later.
From Martin Niemöller, commenting about Nazis:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

[Stuart G]

6. Welcome to Democratic Underground. Great Post. "Then they came for me. And there was no one left. To speak for me.

[Pototan]

7. Thank you and welcome

That poem, penned by an anonymous poet, was exactly what I was thinking about when I wrote the OP.

[Kaleva]

8. And yet people go about their lives like everything is fine

If you observe them, you couldn't tell by their daily behavior that a spot in a concentration camp awaits them.