America 's Concentration Camps During World War II

War! Horrid War! The atrocities of World War II that the Germans committed in the confines of their concentration camps are all but forgotten. The American novelist, travel writer and journalist Martha Gellhorn knew all too well about the atrocities that occurred at the infamous Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany. She gives an expository recount from the point of view of herself and the surviving prisoners of war. She details the prisoners’ stories and her own visit to the camp from after the Americans had liberated it from the Germans in 1945. Gellhorn does so with attention for detail and uses language techniques such as personification to bring the abhorrent scene to life in the reader’s mind. We also learn about the awful treatment of the prisoners and the abominable experiments the Germans conducted.

So in this paper my overall theme would be human rights .Between both eras one being in 1800’s and the other being in the 1900’s time and location definitely had a major factor in the different aspects that were involved with these POW camps .For example the civil war happened far before the holocaust did , but the holocausts brutality stretched far beyond the civil war. This is partially due to Germany being under dictatorship/ chancellorship of Adolf Hitler and the U.S still keeping within the border of The states and having more of a democratic setting during the civil

In many times throughout history groups of people have been discriminated against based on race or religion. These people receive inferior rights because of the discrimination. In some cases they do not get citizenship, in others they are segregated from others, and physically harmed. Two groups of people that faced discrimination near World War II (WWII) were the Jewish people and Japanese Americans. Both groups faced very different types of discrimination by different oppressors with different motives yet their treatment was very similar and many events paralleled each other. The treatment of Japanese in WWII internment camps was as harsh as the Holocaust's treatment of the Jewish people.

2. On page 12, the narration changes. Why might it be necessary for someone else to begin telling Janie’s story now?

This description might be overwhelming, but the truth is that this is a factual description of millions of people that suffered in concentration camps located all over Europe during World War II;

During WW2 many efforts were performed to make the Japanese-American internees and American POWs in Japan feel invisible. There was more than 140,000 prisoners of war, and about 120,000 Japanese that were put in internment camps, during WW2. Although, they were made to feel invisible, each group found a way to resist the efforts. The POW’s were made to feel invisible by they had no contact home,they were made to feel that they lost their dignity,and they were beaten and starved. The Japanese put in internment camps were innocent people that were made to feel invisible by they had to leave their houses,other belongings, and they were disconnected from the outside world.

During the second World War, the United States government produced and circulated several forms of propaganda with varying intentions. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, posters and leaflets dehumanizing the Japanese promoted racial and cultural hatred towards an entire country. Though the targets of American WWII propaganda varied, a major sentiment expressed throughout the war was a cultural and racial hatred toward Axis powers which emphasized stereotypes and harbored an unfounded hatred for an entire culture that acted as a short term causation for more Americans to support the war effort at home but also catalyzed long term effects such as the establishment of Japanese internment camps within the United States.

In 1941, the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor, which made many Americans dislike Japan and the people that are from Japan. Also, President Roosevelt created the Executive Order 9066. The Executive Order stated that all people of Japanese ancestry would be relocated to internment camps, but there weren’t that many that got interned in Hawaii. From 1942-1945, there were about 120,000 “aliens” of Japanese descent that had to live in these internment camps. The government tried to portray life in these camps as happy and nice, but in reality, it wasn’t like that. They had to live in small spaces with many other people, leave most of their belongings at their house, and use what was given to them in the camps. The government didn’t do the right thing when they put the Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps during WWII. They only did it because of how they looked, because the United States was at war with Japan, and because of fear and anger towards Japan.

Imagine being taken out of you home to place of the unknown. There is a lot of chaos and horror. You don’t know who the trust. The government is coming to your neighborhoods and taking you and your family to internment camps just because the government does not trust anyone of your ethnicity. That sounds horrible, right? Well, during World War 2 the United States of America sent Japanese- Americans to internment camps because the government could not trust people of the Japanese decent. They were told that the Japanese- Americans will tell the enemy, Japan, all of secrets about war, that America will do to defeat the Japanese. But, by sending these innocent Americans to these camps is just unjustified, cruel and horrible. This essay will talk about why sending these people to these internment camps were dreadful and unacceptable.

On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor was destroyed. The Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II. 2,300 Americans were killed in this bombing. After two months of the bombing, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066. The Executive order 9066 demanded all Japanese Americans to leave the West coast. Many believed that the Japanese Americans were suspicious of a crime that they did not commit. This was a nightmare to not only Japanese Americans, but also to many Americans. In the Executive Order 9066, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities.”

Imagine your government blaming you for the actions of the race you come from and them ultimately imprisoning you with no remorse. During WWII this situation happened to innocent Japanese Americans out of fear and prejudice. Americans put these innocent citizens in internment camps without solid evidence of them being spies and traitors.By the US acting on fear and prejudice we have damaged and harmed innocent Japanese Americans going against what America stands for and what is right.

In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued executive order 9066; resulting in the relocation of Japanese Americans. This order authorized the evacuation of all people that deemed a threat to security, and the force removal and internment during World War Two of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the Pacific coast. Japanese Americans suffered severe violations of their civil liberties; there was no line drawn between the complex issues of individual rights vs. the demand of national security. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec 7 1941, Americans reacted with fear and hostility towards those of Japanese descent living in the U.S. Some say these harsh effects Japanese face was because they

The topic that has been chosen for the term paper in the pro seminar course is Japanese Internment Camps. During World War II, a significant number of American citizens of Japanese descent were forced into American internment camps, strictly because of their ethnic background. Having committed no crime, the Japanese forced into the internment camps were treated similarly to that of Japanese prisoners of war that had been captured by the Allies. The forced relocation and eventual internment of Japanese Americans was brought about by the event that occurred on December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 began as any typical Sunday on the Hawaiian Islands. Then at 7:55 am, the fateful Sunday on the island of Oahu would be forever remembered in the history books. At 7:55 am, three hundred and fifty three Japanese planes that were launched from Japan’s six biggest and best aircraft carriers, located only two hundred miles off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands, bombed the U.S. Naval Base. The attack by the Japanese was a complete surprise to everyone, and as a result American casualties were heavy. After the attack, fifteen American ships had been sunk including four battleships. In addition, one American ship was capsized, and one had run aground. Also, one hundred and eighty eight American planes were destroyed, and nearly two thousand four hundred men lost their lives. Prior to September 11, 2001, the attack on Pearl Harbor was the worst attack on U.S. soil

Title Auschwitz concentration camp was the source of heartbreak, pain, and devastation for millions of Jews. Formed in 1940, it was one of the largest concentration camps established by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of three parts; Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. The journey to Auschwitz was a long and painful one, impacting people long after it closed its doors in 1945. Jews were painfully affected before, during, and after the time of Auschwitz.

During the April of 1945, in Germany, the World War II was drawing to a close, with the Allied Forces moving towards Berlin. Among their ranks were also soldiers that were newly trained as combat cameramen with the sole duty to document the gruesome scenes behind the recently liberated Nazi concentration camps, on behalf of the British Government. The 1945 documentary was named “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey” and it was produced by Sidney Bernstein with the participation of Alfred Hitchcock.