Today -100: August 3, 1925: Of concentration camps and anniversaries

Those ethnic Germans deported from Poland are currently quartered in the decrepit Schneidemühl concentration camp. It was a World War I prisoner of war camp, but I was a bit startled to see “concentration camp,” a term I thought hadn’t yet migrated to German from English, where it was coined for the Boer War.

Coolidge has been president for two years.

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