Mitsuye endo biography of mahatma

ByEngrid Barnett

The First and Second World Wars had immeasurable consequences when it came to how militaries waged war, the geographic locations that could be impacted by conflict, and how soldiers and civilians got treated on the battlefield and in internment camps.

Of course, when most people hear the term "internment camp," their mind immediately races to WWII and the German camps where political prisoners, Jews, Roma, and the handicapped faced imprisonment and selective extermination.

But mass incarceration of populations has a much longer history, according to the International Encyclopedia of the First World War. 

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From to , more than 30, enemy aliens faced imprisonment in and deportation from the British Isles, their only crime being their country of origin.

And Europe saw the imprisonment of , enemy aliens with everyone getting into the mix, including neutral nations li