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Comparison Of Nazi Concentration Camps And Japanese Internment Camps

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“Learning from our mistakes is not pleasant, but as a great philosopher once admonished we must do so if we want to avoid repeating them,” said President Gerald R. Ford. Fear and hate are two totally different things that shouldn’t be considered the same.Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps are not essentially the same thing because of fear and. hate, the U.S. apologizing vs. Germany not, and the treatment of the two camps. Overall, Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not the same because their treatment was totally different. First, in concentration camps, people were being killed every day from different ways. Many deaths were caused by disease, about 10-60% of people who died were killed from illnesses or disease due to poor treatment. Secondly, in Japanese internment camps their people were treated like prisoners. The Japanese were not being killed every day, they got a fair amount of food and the U.S. was not trying to purposely hurt them. Lastly, in concentration camps, Nazi’s …show more content…

In Nazi concentration camps they put the people in there because Hitler thought they’d fight against his ideas when he was head of government. The sole purpose of the concentration camps brought a feeling of safety towards Hitler and other people in Germany and around them. The U.S. made internment camps because they were viewed as “...an enemy non-citizen.” says George Takei in his interview about his experience in internment camps. Lastly, Hitler also put homosexuals in concentration camps because he thought they posed a threat to him and Germany. He believed they weren’t right and very different to “normal people”. Overall the concentration camps and internment camps were the same due to the stereotyping they both

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