Join us in reading! We are on the Intro and Chapter 1!
It’s not too late. Just read and post as you do so with the hashtag #OneLongNight or follow the hashtag as we post our thoughts.
It’s not too late. Just read and post as you do so with the hashtag #OneLongNight or follow the hashtag as we post our thoughts.
Sitting at the car wash with a little light reading: “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps” #OneLongNight
August 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Join us in reading! We are on the Intro and Chapter 1!
It’s not too late. Just read and post as you do so with the hashtag #OneLongNight or follow the hashtag as we post our thoughts.
It’s not too late. Just read and post as you do so with the hashtag #OneLongNight or follow the hashtag as we post our thoughts.
Excited to announce an opportunity for any to take part in a Bluesky Book Club.
The reading is One Long Night by @andreapitzer.bsky.social.
We are meeting virtually—follow and DM for info—or just read along with us & post your thoughts using #OneLongNight hashtag.
Intro & Ch 1 by August 28.
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The reading is One Long Night by @andreapitzer.bsky.social.
We are meeting virtually—follow and DM for info—or just read along with us & post your thoughts using #OneLongNight hashtag.
Intro & Ch 1 by August 28.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Excited to announce an opportunity for any to take part in a Bluesky Book Club.
The reading is One Long Night by @andreapitzer.bsky.social.
We are meeting virtually—follow and DM for info—or just read along with us & post your thoughts using #OneLongNight hashtag.
Intro & Ch 1 by August 28.
1/2
The reading is One Long Night by @andreapitzer.bsky.social.
We are meeting virtually—follow and DM for info—or just read along with us & post your thoughts using #OneLongNight hashtag.
Intro & Ch 1 by August 28.
1/2
In our discussion we were reminded that public health originated in Eugenicist principles and that it can be used to justify the detention of civilians AND play a role in harming them within those camps.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
August 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
In our discussion we were reminded that public health originated in Eugenicist principles and that it can be used to justify the detention of civilians AND play a role in harming them within those camps.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
Sitting at the car wash with a little light reading: “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps” #OneLongNight
August 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Sitting at the car wash with a little light reading: “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps” #OneLongNight
One fascinating aspect of the Boer War in #OneLongNight is how the horrid conditions into which the British placed the Boer’s simultaneously served as justification for the war and the treatment of that group. This is not uncommon.
A cup of coffee and a book to read: #OneLongNight, A Global History of Concentration Camps, the 2nd chapter, about the Boer War in South Africa in 1900.
September 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
One fascinating aspect of the Boer War in #OneLongNight is how the horrid conditions into which the British placed the Boer’s simultaneously served as justification for the war and the treatment of that group. This is not uncommon.
tonight's the first night of the #OneLongNight bluesky book club. one of my favorite things about the internet is crossing paths with and learning from n with total strangers, and that sure is what this is; on an essential topic at a prescient time.
Excited to announce an opportunity for any to take part in a Bluesky Book Club.
The reading is One Long Night by @andreapitzer.bsky.social.
We are meeting virtually—follow and DM for info—or just read along with us & post your thoughts using #OneLongNight hashtag.
Intro & Ch 1 by August 28.
1/2
The reading is One Long Night by @andreapitzer.bsky.social.
We are meeting virtually—follow and DM for info—or just read along with us & post your thoughts using #OneLongNight hashtag.
Intro & Ch 1 by August 28.
1/2
August 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
tonight's the first night of the #OneLongNight bluesky book club. one of my favorite things about the internet is crossing paths with and learning from n with total strangers, and that sure is what this is; on an essential topic at a prescient time.
A useful definition of Concentration camp that helps get beyond debates that might exclude certain camps from the term based on assumption that certain nations or governmental types don’t use them.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
August 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A useful definition of Concentration camp that helps get beyond debates that might exclude certain camps from the term based on assumption that certain nations or governmental types don’t use them.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
It never occurred to me to think about where concentration camps first came about. I only ever associated them with Nazi Germany. Learning a lot from @andreapitzer.bsky.social's #OneLongNight
August 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It never occurred to me to think about where concentration camps first came about. I only ever associated them with Nazi Germany. Learning a lot from @andreapitzer.bsky.social's #OneLongNight
A telling chapter to begin today. The first sentence says it all. #OneLongNight #Chapter5 #whatimreading #recommendedreading @andreapitzer.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A telling chapter to begin today. The first sentence says it all. #OneLongNight #Chapter5 #whatimreading #recommendedreading @andreapitzer.bsky.social
After finishing the most informative, if dark, #OneLongNight by @andreapitzer.bsky.social, and taking a break with some fun fiction (Nora Robert's latest In Death) I have started my next book challenge. #TheAnxiousGeneration by #JonathanHaidt #nonfiction #whatimreading
February 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
After finishing the most informative, if dark, #OneLongNight by @andreapitzer.bsky.social, and taking a break with some fun fiction (Nora Robert's latest In Death) I have started my next book challenge. #TheAnxiousGeneration by #JonathanHaidt #nonfiction #whatimreading
A cup of coffee and a book to read: #OneLongNight, A Global History of Concentration Camps, the 2nd chapter, about the Boer War in South Africa in 1900.
September 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A cup of coffee and a book to read: #OneLongNight, A Global History of Concentration Camps, the 2nd chapter, about the Boer War in South Africa in 1900.
This is an important thing that historians show. The topics we speak about are usually not inevitable. They are contingent. We can and should work to stop these camps.
With all our might, honestly.
#OneLongNight
With all our might, honestly.
#OneLongNight
But I hope ONE LONG NIGHT clarifies just what is happening today. If we understand that what Congress has funded and the government is building are concentration camps, the stakes are obvious. The majority of Americans are, by and large, free to act and can undo this. It is more than possible. [2/2]
December 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is an important thing that historians show. The topics we speak about are usually not inevitable. They are contingent. We can and should work to stop these camps.
With all our might, honestly.
#OneLongNight
With all our might, honestly.
#OneLongNight
In chapter 4 of #OneLongNight, Pitzer notes how concentration camps were used by numerous states during WWI to intern external enemies living domestically. In chapter 5 she shows how easily this flowed into the Bolsheviks detaining internal enemies in them.
They evolve.
They evolve.
October 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In chapter 4 of #OneLongNight, Pitzer notes how concentration camps were used by numerous states during WWI to intern external enemies living domestically. In chapter 5 she shows how easily this flowed into the Bolsheviks detaining internal enemies in them.
They evolve.
They evolve.
“Whoever was tortured, stays tortured.” Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry as quoted in #OneLongNight
We sometimes believe that survival makes people better or that it ennobles.
Camps make no one better.
Check out “When Victims Become Killers” by Mahmood Mamdani (father of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)
We sometimes believe that survival makes people better or that it ennobles.
Camps make no one better.
Check out “When Victims Become Killers” by Mahmood Mamdani (father of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)
August 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“Whoever was tortured, stays tortured.” Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry as quoted in #OneLongNight
We sometimes believe that survival makes people better or that it ennobles.
Camps make no one better.
Check out “When Victims Become Killers” by Mahmood Mamdani (father of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)
We sometimes believe that survival makes people better or that it ennobles.
Camps make no one better.
Check out “When Victims Become Killers” by Mahmood Mamdani (father of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)
“Civilians rather than combatants” means that, even if the “emergency” demanding the camps came in the context of war, these camps target those who are not engaged in combat. In a way, this means the creation of a national “enemy” category.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
August 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Civilians rather than combatants” means that, even if the “emergency” demanding the camps came in the context of war, these camps target those who are not engaged in combat. In a way, this means the creation of a national “enemy” category.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
Considering an author’s definition is essential in being able to engage with their work.
Pitzer’s differentiates between labor camps, internment camps, transit camps, and death camps.
People need to understand this nuance or they’ll mash all the meaning together in confused ways.
Considering an author’s definition is essential in being able to engage with their work.
Pitzer’s differentiates between labor camps, internment camps, transit camps, and death camps.
People need to understand this nuance or they’ll mash all the meaning together in confused ways.
@andreapitzer.bsky.social adds these explanatory points to her definition of concentration camp. Each reveals a quality of a society that creates the camps. Thus, rather than monocausal and easily explained, they are created via varied fears and systems.
August 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#OneLongNight
Considering an author’s definition is essential in being able to engage with their work.
Pitzer’s differentiates between labor camps, internment camps, transit camps, and death camps.
People need to understand this nuance or they’ll mash all the meaning together in confused ways.
Considering an author’s definition is essential in being able to engage with their work.
Pitzer’s differentiates between labor camps, internment camps, transit camps, and death camps.
People need to understand this nuance or they’ll mash all the meaning together in confused ways.
Tonight is our first discussion for #OneLongNight and reviewing ch1 today I had the eeriest feeling about a connection between the strange admiration people running and implementing concentration camps had for Generals Sherman and Sheridan. And I realized re-reading something Sheridan said why- 🧵
A useful definition of Concentration camp that helps get beyond debates that might exclude certain camps from the term based on assumption that certain nations or governmental types don’t use them.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
August 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Tonight is our first discussion for #OneLongNight and reviewing ch1 today I had the eeriest feeling about a connection between the strange admiration people running and implementing concentration camps had for Generals Sherman and Sheridan. And I realized re-reading something Sheridan said why- 🧵
The first of these, “no real trial for detainees” speaks to the nature of incarceration in such camps as a determined by some essentialized physical or social quality. They are a danger (or stated as endangered) because of assumed qualities.
The biological determinism is clear.
#OneLongNight
The biological determinism is clear.
#OneLongNight
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The first of these, “no real trial for detainees” speaks to the nature of incarceration in such camps as a determined by some essentialized physical or social quality. They are a danger (or stated as endangered) because of assumed qualities.
The biological determinism is clear.
#OneLongNight
The biological determinism is clear.
#OneLongNight
Join us as we read #OneLongNight and get perspectives like this one as various people read along and share their thoughts.
If you’d like a book to read about the German assault on the Herero and Nama check out Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction, linked in the comments.
If you’d like a book to read about the German assault on the Herero and Nama check out Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction, linked in the comments.
We're not "officially" reading this yet but I obviously have been plowing ahead in One Long Night about the history of concentration camps. Tonight I'm blown away by the story in #OneLongNight about Shark Island, one of the camps the Herero and Nama people were imprisoned in Germany's colony ~ 1904
August 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Join us as we read #OneLongNight and get perspectives like this one as various people read along and share their thoughts.
If you’d like a book to read about the German assault on the Herero and Nama check out Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction, linked in the comments.
If you’d like a book to read about the German assault on the Herero and Nama check out Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction, linked in the comments.
Pitzer demonstrates the continuities and evolution of the camps as she depicts the alteration of the gulags from primarily concentration camps to economically driven labor camps. These drove a need for enemies to fill them.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Pitzer demonstrates the continuities and evolution of the camps as she depicts the alteration of the gulags from primarily concentration camps to economically driven labor camps. These drove a need for enemies to fill them.
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
And it’s certainly not that Republicans aren’t taking ideas from Nazi Germany or elsewhere but that the focus on Nazi camps as THE example obscures a lot of closer ties. The impulses are certainly American.
@andreapitzer.bsky.social’s #OneLongNight does a great job of showing how various…
@andreapitzer.bsky.social’s #OneLongNight does a great job of showing how various…
December 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
And it’s certainly not that Republicans aren’t taking ideas from Nazi Germany or elsewhere but that the focus on Nazi camps as THE example obscures a lot of closer ties. The impulses are certainly American.
@andreapitzer.bsky.social’s #OneLongNight does a great job of showing how various…
@andreapitzer.bsky.social’s #OneLongNight does a great job of showing how various…
leave it 2 bab to bring up public health
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
August 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
leave it 2 bab to bring up public health
#OneLongNight
#OneLongNight
A great thread starting with #OneLongNight and then addressing our currrent eugenicist moment.
During last night's #OneLongNight book club discussion, the topic of eugenics came up. When the book is about concentration camps, concepts of eugenics become an unavoidable trait of their purposes and targeting of people.
Something Pitzer notes right away about her sources is whose stories survive.
Something Pitzer notes right away about her sources is whose stories survive.
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard.
We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful.
RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful.
RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
August 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A great thread starting with #OneLongNight and then addressing our currrent eugenicist moment.
Tuomas has some great thoughts on the precedent the camps of these chapters set. #OneLongNight
Some thoughts on #onelongnight Chapters 3 & 4.
- Access to British run camps in South Africa was very limited. I see echos of this today, in the US with members of Congress denied entry and even arrested when trying to assess conditions in holding centers, much less camps.
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- Access to British run camps in South Africa was very limited. I see echos of this today, in the US with members of Congress denied entry and even arrested when trying to assess conditions in holding centers, much less camps.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Tuomas has some great thoughts on the precedent the camps of these chapters set. #OneLongNight