Phil Wood Posted 20 May , 2017 Share Posted 20 May , 2017 It is easy to find articles telling me that Germans referred to Salonika as their biggest internment camp. Does anyone have a contemporary reference for this? Who, if anyone,a ctually said it first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete-c Posted 21 May , 2017 Share Posted 21 May , 2017 (edited) Phil, apologies if you have already done this, but I've just had a quick check on 't'internet' and come up with a book titled: Great Scientists of the Great War by William Van der Gloot. In one of the chapters there is a reference to this very saying - #29 in the chapter notes - unfortunately the notes are not available to view on-line. Might be worth buying the e book. Edited 21 May , 2017 by pete-c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Wood Posted 23 May , 2017 Author Share Posted 23 May , 2017 Not sure its worth the cost just for this, but I'll have a look next time I'm in the British Library. There are numerous books quoting the phrase, one even has a chapter entitled The Greatest Internment Camp. It is certainly a phrase that has captured the imagination so as to become commonplace within the relatively small community of authors on the Salonika campaign, but was it really used at the time? If it was did it really come from a German, or was it invented by a Westerner keen to get the font closed down? Or was it another snappy phrase invented by Allan Clarke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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