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I'm poking through the old @latimes archives for some of the first references to "concentration camps." This one is from 1914. For what it's worth, it immediately reminded me of the way present-day news outlets often write about their tours of migrant detention centers today. 
(I'm also seeing "concentration camp" used as a term for military encampments, I guess like present-day forward-operating bases)
Which strikes me, if anything, as euphemism? These aren't prisoner camps, good sir, they are military bases that happen to hold foreign civilians!
L.A. Times, May 8, 1917: The mayor of Los Angeles is pestering the feds to please put a "concentration camp" – of U.S. soldiers – in Arcadia.
Jul. 2, 1919, when "concentration camp" is used to describe what seems to be a refugee camp of Americans in Mexico hiding from Pancho Villa:
Here's a July 18, 1923 essay from a "Princess Kourakine" (not sure who that is) describing a Soviet "concentration camp" of war prisoners:
