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Right. And the camp system being set up is only one aspect (also read #OneLongNight for seeing the development of concentration camps).
There is “Working Toward the Fuhrer,” “Radicalization from Below,” “Little Fuhrers,” gleischaltung, etc.
And it’s certainly not that Republicans aren’t taking ideas from Nazi Germany or elsewhere but that the focus on Nazi camps as THE example obscures a lot of closer ties. The impulses are certainly American.
@andreapitzer.bsky.social’s #OneLongNight does a great job of showing how various…
This is an important thing that historians show. The topics we speak about are usually not inevitable. They are contingent. We can and should work to stop these camps.
With all our might, honestly.
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Concentration camps in the U.S.A. - not fiction but a horrid reality that all Americans need to come to terms with.
I highly recommend Andrea Pitzer's #OneLongNight to better understand the history of the concentration camp. We can move past this barbarism.
It's been a dark, dark time in the news for quite some time now. While there are, and will continue to be, bright spots, we must use these times as a learning opportunity.
If there is one (and there are many!) thing I've learned from reading Andrea Pitzer's #OneLongNight, it is perseverance.
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A reminder that the camp that starts the narrative in #onelongnight is still there. Concentration camps continue to plague this world, and we must learn to understand their existence, and how to root them out when our governments attempt to bring them to use.
Just a couple of thoughts as I'm making my way through Andrea Pitzer's #onelongnight
The absolute scale of the camp system in China and how many were incarcerated and killed. Just stunning in the worst possible way.
Also brings about thoughts not directly addressed in the book.
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Another example of what I've been reading about in Andrea Pitzer's #onelongnight. We are seeing an explosive growth in concentration camps here in the United States, a trend that never ends well.
Also, housing first (in a real home, not a camp) works!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Closeup of a page from "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps", from the chapter about the creation of the Soviet Gulag.
Reading about the Gulag today. Tomorrow I'll read about the architecture of Auschwitz. #OneLongNight
Looking down on my bestickered MacBook Air and the open-spined book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps" by Andrea Pitzer sitting on an oak table.
Getting ready for our online book discussion on Thursday. #OneLongNight
Pitzer demonstrates the continuities and evolution of the camps as she depicts the alteration of the gulags from primarily concentration camps to economically driven labor camps. These drove a need for enemies to fill them.
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In chapter 4 of #OneLongNight, Pitzer notes how concentration camps were used by numerous states during WWI to intern external enemies living domestically. In chapter 5 she shows how easily this flowed into the Bolsheviks detaining internal enemies in them.
They evolve.
Tonight's #OneLongNight discussion begins in just a few minutes- Chapters 2 & 3 in a long history of concentration camps. These chapters discuss Africa: the Boer war, Shark Island, race "science" experiments conducted on Black bodies (skulls), the atrocities inflicted on Herero & later Nama people
Tuomas has some great thoughts on the precedent the camps of these chapters set. #OneLongNight
Some thoughts on #onelongnight Chapters 3 & 4.
- Access to British run camps in South Africa was very limited. I see echos of this today, in the US with members of Congress denied entry and even arrested when trying to assess conditions in holding centers, much less camps.
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On the other hand, we don't know what RFK could be imagining with his talk of "registries" and camps, and we only have historical examples to draw from. Here I am once more finding relevance in #OneLongNight and the increasing threat of othering people- its implications.
One fascinating aspect of the Boer War in #OneLongNight is how the horrid conditions into which the British placed the Boer’s simultaneously served as justification for the war and the treatment of that group. This is not uncommon.
On a marble bistro table, a book (One Long Night by Andrea Pitzer), a cup of coffee, and a loaf of bread.
A cup of coffee and a book to read: #OneLongNight, A Global History of Concentration Camps, the 2nd chapter, about the Boer War in South Africa in 1900.
A great thread starting with #OneLongNight and then addressing our currrent eugenicist moment.
During last night's #OneLongNight book club discussion, the topic of eugenics came up. When the book is about concentration camps, concepts of eugenics become an unavoidable trait of their purposes and targeting of people.
Something Pitzer notes right away about her sources is whose stories survive.
Last night, during the #OneLongNight book club discussion, we discussed “othering” as a component of concentration camps.
It’s important to remember that the Nazi konzentrationslager system wasn’t acceptable even in holding common criminals.
It was wrong for its treatment and being extrajudicial.
In our discussion we were reminded that public health originated in Eugenicist principles and that it can be used to justify the detention of civilians AND play a role in harming them within those camps.
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In the public health arena, governments began to take a role in maintaining public sanitation and disease-free communities, and of "numbering the people" in order to track them toward that end. The germ theory of disease revealed the nature of contagion and how illnesses spread a triumph of rational discovery. But the same Enlightenment rationality and efficiency could be mixed in a stew with irrational fears and ignorance to assault those seen as inferior. For decades, American sociologists studied an extended family they named the "Jukes," at first showing the role that environment and poverty played in fostering criminal behavior but eventually claiming that the research vindicated theories of inherited feeblemindedness and degeneracy. Public health measures further introduced the idea that the state had a sometimes punitive role to play in protecting citizens through monitoring the spread of disease and enforcing health codes.
leave it 2 bab to bring up public health
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tonight's the first night of the #OneLongNight bluesky book club. one of my favorite things about the internet is crossing paths with and learning from n with total strangers, and that sure is what this is; on an essential topic at a prescient time.
Pitzer, author of #OneLongNight, goes on to describe how "the widespread adoption of Sherman & Sheridan's methods meant that the same tactics would soon be embraced around the world *for a whole range of lesser objectives*" (*emphasis mine*, hang in there, I'm getting to my point I promise).
Tonight is our first discussion for #OneLongNight and reviewing ch1 today I had the eeriest feeling about a connection between the strange admiration people running and implementing concentration camps had for Generals Sherman and Sheridan. And I realized re-reading something Sheridan said why- 🧵
"The final elements making concentration camps possible came from innovations in the second half of the 19th century. Public health, census taking, and bureaucratic efficiencies all played their part, as did inventions such as barbed wire and automatic weapons." #OneLongNight
"Camps require the removal of a population with all its accompanying rights, relationships, and connections to humanity. This exclusion is followed by an involuntary assignment to some lesser condition or place...." #OneLongNight by @andreapitzer.bsky.social
"...mass civilian detention without trial [is] the defining feature of a [concentration] camp..."
Reading #OneLongNight by @andreapitzer.bsky.social for an online book discussion
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Gestapo rules for taking Jews to the Lodz Ghetto: You must carry out this order with all the necessary toughness, correctness and accuracy that is required ... The Jews will try to manipulate you by request or threat. ... Do not allow yourselves to be influenced in any way.Yad Vashem.
