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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.013006.24072@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:30:06 GMT
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- dusek@rtsg.mot.com (James P. Dusek) writes:
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- [...]
- > Japanese were *NOT* put into concentration camps during WW2.
- >You are falling for media hype. There is a big difference between
- >a consentration camp and a detainment camp.
- [...]
-
- From the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition:
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- 7 attrib.: concentration camp, a camp where non-combatants of a dis-
- trict are accommodated, such as those instituted by Lord Kitchener dur-
- ing the South African War of 1899-1902; one for the internment of polit-
- ical prisoners, foreign nationals, etc., esp. as organized by the Nazi
- regime in Germany before and during the war of 1939-45; also fig.; con-
- centration cell Electr., a cell whose difference of potential is due to
- the difference of concentration of the solutions in which the electrodes
- are immersed.
-
- - Carl
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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