The Dark Side of the British Empire

While the Second Boer War and its concentration camps resulted in intense reactions some criticised war-related issues have been misrepresented. Then-contemporary British individuals and the British media distorted them to mitigate British responsibility and in addition to this a group of historians discredited Afrikaner sources due to their political relevance. It seems that the 20th century did not conclude the debate over the true nature of the event. On the contrary as a legacy of the then-contemporary debates the question remains as to what extent first the British and then the Boers contributed to the devastating impact of the camps leaving the debates of the history of post-colonial South Africa inconclusive.