Valeriano Weyler

Valeriano Weyler was a Spanish officer known for his extremely inhumane treatment of civilians. Historian Andrea Pitzer names Weyler as the first official to open a concentration camp.^[1]

References

↑ "On anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, writer calls attention to modern-day concentration camps". The Current. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-01-28. But Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps were not solely concentration camps, Pitzer explained: they were the first-ever extermination camps, built with the express purpose of eliminating entire ethnic groups — primarily Jewish and Roma people.

[Cbc2020-01-27-1] "On anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, writer calls attention to modern-day concentration camps". The Current. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-01-28. But Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps were not solely concentration camps, Pitzer explained: they were the first-ever extermination camps, built with the express purpose of eliminating entire ethnic groups — primarily Jewish and Roma people.

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