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Concentration Camps Vs Japanese Internment Camps Essay

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One out of fear, one out of hate. As you may know, back in our past was some bad ideas and cruel torture. Back on February 19, 1942 President Ford signed an executive order that took around 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps. Also Hitler took the Jewish people out of their homes and put them into concentration camps. These camps were both around the same time. The Nazi concentration camps and the Japanese internment camps are not the same thing at all. The concentration camps were meant for killing Jewish, but the relocation camps were thought as removing all Japanese out of America. First of all, America's goal was never to kill, but for the Nazi’s, it was to kill. America did it because they thought it was safer but the Nazi’s did it out of hate. Second, the internment camps were not meant just for killing. It was cruel, but that was not the soul purpose. A quote from ‘Concentration Camps In Nazi Germany’,”...knowledge of what life was like in concentration camps was allowed to leak out.” This shows people knew it was bad but went along with it because it was so terrifying and Hitler wanted to scare them. This proves that …show more content…

The Japanese had it a little better than the Jewish people because although they had it bad in general, the Jewish people had it worse because they knew sometime in their distant future, they were going to die. The Japanese also had a little more freedom. In a video about the internment camps, they said,”They were aloud to hold meetings, the kids and teens could still go to school and religious time together” On the other hand the Jewish did not have that type of freedom. Also, the Jewish people rarely if ever, got a break. They had job, after job, after job, even if the tasks were pointless. They just never wanted them to get a break. In summation, the Jewish people in the concentration camps were worked hard than the Japanese in the internment

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