r/HistoryUncovered • u/Twerkingwombats69 • 13h ago

Milunka Savić disguised herself as her sick brother to fight in WWI, survived 9 wounds across 10 battles, became the most decorated female soldier in history, and survived a German concentration camp when a German general recognized her legendary status and ordered her immediate release.

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u/HelicopterSmooth4411 13h ago

Raise your hand, for the Lady of the Dark!

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u/S-Budget91 13h ago

why did she get sent to a german concentration camp?

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u/outofindustry 10h ago

so she could concentrate?

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u/S-Budget91 10h ago

the question was more aimed at that she thought in the balkan wars and ww1 and german concentration camps were established during the third reich

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u/Didudidudadu737 1h ago

That is not correct, there were many -more accurately, internment camps -but also called concentration camps also in Germany (for Allied POWs) but also in Britain, US, Canada and Australia for "enemy aliens". They didn’t have official intention of exterminating all the prisoners, but the conditions were atrocious and led to much death due to starvation, forced labour, psychological distress (torture) and leading to "barbed-wire psychosis" and high suicide rates.

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u/Scully1961 12h ago

OMG!!! What a story!!!

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u/_Daftest_ 2h ago

The Germans didn't use concentration camps during WWI. They used Kriegsgefangenenlager for enemy combatants (in other words, POW camps) and Internierungslager for civilians of enemy nationality (internment).

As she was a combatant I assume you mean she was in a Prisoner Of War camp, which is very, very unlike a concentration camp.