tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post7132597750330646590..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Kit Carson: Hero or villain?Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-89313478413135206122010-07-04T16:59:18.796-07:002010-07-04T16:59:18.796-07:00About Bosque Redondo, the name is new to me. I mus...About Bosque Redondo, the name is new to me. I must have overlooked your previous discussion of it.<br /><br />Information on it is <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_the_Bosque_Redondo_Memorial_called_the_Site_of_Conscience" rel="nofollow">easy to find<</a>:<br /><br />The page says it "was a forced labor prison camp which was subsequently studied by Nazis in order to perfect their death camps for Jews. It served as a prototype for Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other sites of mass murder of the Third Reich."<br /><br />That and other details make it sound like a concentration camp to me. Pike Island, where the Minnesota Dakota were imprisoned before being expelled from the state, bears some resemblance to a concentration camp also:<br /><br />"more than 1600 Dakota women, children and old men were held in an internment camp on Pike Island, near Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Living conditions and sanitation were poor, and infectious disease struck the camp, killing more than three hundred" (Wikipedia)dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com