[AnimalMuppet]

Define "concentration camp".

If you mean "a place where many of a certain category of people are held", then yes, we did. If you mean "place where many of a certain category of people are held and killed", then no, we didn't.

Technically, the first definition is at least as correct as the second one. But colloquially, the second one is what many people understand.

You cannot compare the camps that German citizens were held in by the US to Dachau.

[philwelch]

I actually agree with you that the term “concentration camp” is inflammatory and misleading when applied to the internment camps used to hold Axis citizens and Japanese-Americans. But the comment I was replying to was attempting to draw a contrast between the Japanese internment and the treatment of German citizens, when in fact German and Italian citizens were interned during the war. In fact I’ve actually visited one of the internment camps, in Montana.