Concentration Camps Vs Japanese Internment Camps

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the internment of Japanese Americans on the West coast of the United States. On going tension between the United States and Japan rose in the 1930’s due to Japan’s increasing power and because of this tension the bombing at Pearl Harbor occurred. This event then led the United States to join World War II. However it was the Executive Order of 9066 that officially led to the internment of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans, some legal and illegal residents, were moved into internment camps between 1942-1946. The internment of Japanese Americans affected not only these citizens but the

First, Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing because the Jews were not being treated like people, while the Japanese resumed a normal life. First, in Anne Frank's diary it says, “The people get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink”(Anne Frank's diary, October 9th,1942) . In the Nazi concentration camps they weren’t even given the luxury of food. It was watered down porridge, which gave them absolutely no nutritional value. To make matters worse, water was only available 1 hour a day. Many people would go days without food and water. Killing the weak and the sick. Next, while in the Japanese internment camps they had plenty of food and water. They had healthy food

Concentration camps and internment camps both wanted people to suffer, but overall, they weren’t all that similar. The Holocaust was 12 years long from 1933-1945. The Japanese-American Relocation was held for 4 years from 1942-1946. Many people think these camps are the same, but if these people dig deeper they are realize they are nowhere close. The Japanese internment camps and the Jewish concentration camps aren’t essentially the same for three main reasons: Jews were forced to work while Japanese had the option, Jews were put to death, but the internment camps no one was killed, and concentration camps were formed for different reason.

Some people claim that the Internment camps were worse than Nazi camps but in reality, they were a bit alike but nothing really similar to them. Some of the hardships were bad food and very small living spaces but they were in there for national security, not for extermination. Over two-hundred voluntarily moved in.(Pipes) Families dined together at communal mess halls.(USHistory.org) Some of the internees had the option of serving in the army. One of the strongest units was the 442nd regiment, an all Japanese unit in Europe. So camps never reached the levels of Nazi camps.(USHistory.org)

Before the internment camps were built the japanese had to stay in stables in racetracks. If the adults chose to work, they were only paid $5 a day. The camps were located in areas that made farming difficult and the prisoners ate a lot of army grub-style food.The U.S. Army eventually decided to allow the prisoners to leave the camps if they joined the U.S. Army but only 1,200 took the option.If they ran out of food then that was to bad for the people who were still waiting in line.

The Jewish concentration camps were way worse than the Japanese internment camps, “Then Jack would snap back to reality, his stomach turning inside out from hunger, his body infested in lice, men around him dying from hunger, disease and sorrow” (Warren 72). This shows the reader the Jews were living in the concentration

Internment: the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.

Following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, racial tensions increased in the United States, especially on the West Coast (Divine 898). The anti-Japanese sentiment led to President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which gave military officials the power to limit the civil rights of Japanese Americans (Danzer 802). The order also authorized the forced relocation of all Japanese Americans to concentration camps (Divine 898). These camps were located in desolate deserts and flatlands in the interior of the United States (Sato 67). Two thirds of the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forced to relocate were “Nisei”, or native born American citizens (Divine 898).

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II (Prange et al., 1981: p.174). On February 19, 1942, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War and Military Commanders to prescribe areas of land as excludable military zones (Roosevelt, 1942). Effectively, this order sanctioned the identification, deportation, and internment of innocent Japanese Americans in War Relocation Camps across the western half of the United States. During the spring and summer of 1942, it is estimated that almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated from their homes along the West Coast and in Hawaii and

The relocation of Japanese Americans was an event that occurred within the United States during World War II. On February 19th, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese Americans living in the West Coast to be evacuated from the area and relocated to internment camps all across the United States, where they would be imprisoned. Approximately 120,000 people were sent to the camps and the event lasted through the years 1942 and 1945. The main cause of the relocation and internment of these people was because of fear made among Japanese people after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Citizens of the United States had been worrying about the possibility of Japanese residents of the country aiding Japan, and/or secretly trying to destroy American companies.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This Order called for the internment, or jailing, of thousands of Japanese American citizens. The citizens that were interned lost their homes, jobs and businesses, their lives devastated. Those who were interned were moved to prison camps, where the conditions weren't favorable. The fateful decision of President Roosevelt crossed a line, the Rubicon in a way, and had many impacts, both short-term and long-term. There is no doubt that for generations, the Japanese people of America felt a certain distrust of their government, even if they'd been extremely loyal before. The effect of the Executive Order had an irreversible effect on the Japanese of America. The ordering of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt was not justified, as Japanese American citizens provided little to no evidence of being a threat, and therefore their internment was wrong.

75 years ago, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. For a brief history lesson, during World War II, tension was high and people in the US were both angry and scared. Fresh off the attack on Pearl Harbor, citizens and the government had a major fear of more homeland attacks from the Japanese as well as spies living among them. Influenced by many members of his cabinet, FDR signed the Executive Order, along with Executive Order 9102, which caused over 100,000 people of Japanese origin (over 70,000 of which were American citizens) along with several thousand German and Italian immigrants, to be put in internment camps for the duration of the war.

On February 19th, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. What this order did was authorize the war department to designate military areas and exclude anyone from them who they felt was a danger or a threat. Its specific target without being obvious was Japanese Americans. This was just a little over 2 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Over 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast would soon be ordered to enter Internment Camps. The government had also ordered Italian and German immigrants living in the United States to be sent to the camps as well. According to PBS there was a plan drawn up in Washington to include all 158,000 Japanese people living in Hawaii to be sent to the camps as well. Wealthy land

Many died do to the poor living arrangements. Their houses being cold in the winter and boiling in the summer. If they tried to escape, which only a few did, they were killed. Older immigrants called Issei,were deprived of the traditional respect due to the fact the their American born children called Nisei, were given higher positions in the camp. Studies also show that there was a two times greater incidence of heart disease and early death in those who used to be in the internment camps to non interned Japanese. Unlike Hitler's Jewish work and concentration camps, the Japanese were not sent to the camps to be killed. They were mainly there to put aside worries that the Americans

War in the pacific was very difficult living in harsh conditions and in unsanitary homes. Can you imagine living in harsh conditions and getting sick every week. The U.S wasn’t officially involved in World War II until the United States broke the Domain code then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Louie a U.S Prisoner of War (POW) in Japan and Mine as a American internee ________ effects to make them invisible. Japanese internment camps and American POW have many similarities and differences. For example the Japanese were moved from civilization far far away in the jungle. Some Of the similarities are that the both Japanese internees and American POW were living in very harsh conditions and were treated very badly. Also some of the differences