German Internment During World War II

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.

When Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942,1 thousands of Japanese-American families were relocated to internment camps in an attempt to suppress supposed espionage and sabotage attempts on the part of the Japanese government. Not only was this relocation based on false premises and shaky evidence, but it also violated the rights of Japanese-Americans through processes of institutional racism that were imposed following the events of Pearl Harbor. Targeting mostly Issei and Nisei citizens, first and second generation Japanese-Americans respectively,2 the policy of internment disrupted the lives of families, resulting in a loss of personal property, emotional distress,

The Second World War was an international event which drastically impacted the world as a whole. With the war came a new found sense of mistrust throughout society. American and Canadian communities were divided due to the fear of espionage and sabotage, forms of spying which could help aid the enemy in war. This division promoted distrust, discrimination and violence toward Japanese immigrants and their children. To offset these fears resulting from war, Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadian citizens were forced into internment camps, resulting in a heightened sense of tension upon arrival home and finally the compensations of both US and Canadian governments

     For over a century, the United States has been one of the most powerful and influential states on the globe. However, every nation has made mistakes in its past. Throughout our country’s history, certain groups have had to endure horrible injustices: the enslavement of African-Americans, the removal of Native Americans, and discrimination against immigrants, women, homosexuals, and every other minority. During World War II, the government crossed the line between defending the nation and violating human rights, when it chose to relocate Japanese residents to internment camps. The actions taken by the U.S. government against Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the

Our president during World War II was Franklin D. Roosevelt. On February 19, 1942, he “authorized the internment of ten of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan.”1 The attack on Pearl Harbor incited the fear against Japanese Americans, because the United States believed that Japanese Americans would turn their backs on the U.S. and be a threat to the security. This authorization was called the Presidential Executive Order 9066. Even though there was no evidence that they imposed threat, the military’s command was to take over and invade Japanese homes. The Japanese were ordered to live in internment camps in the West Coast. These camps were in horrible conditions and fenced with barbed wire. In the camps, the Japanese-American civilians created their own small city with their own doctors, food, and teachers.

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.

Secondly, Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was impact on Japanese American in the U.S. It was two months later, after bombing Pearl Harbor on December, 7 1941 Japanese-American were immediately became victim of what the Japanese did. As a result, of the President Franklin Roosevelt's "signed Exclusive order 9066" that allowed military force to removed Japanese American form the anywhere into internment camps( Uchida 407). The reason why the U.S. government relocated Japanese-American into internment camps because the U.S. concerns over the loyalty of Japanese American associated with Japanese to defeat the U.S. However, no anyone found evident to prove about the U.S. concerns. In addition, Japanese American that moved to camps, they lost everything

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.

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.”

Following the beginning of World War II, more than 75,000 Japanese- Americans were placed into internment camps. Internment of Japanese-Americans occurred as a result of racial prejudice; moreover, the institutional and societal racism that pervaded American society influenced public policy so as to justify the creation of these internment camps.

How could the United States imprison thousands of innocent people without cause? During World War II, Japan may have posed a threat to Americans, however, the US government unnecessarily rounded up all citizens of Japanese descent and sent them to live in internment camps. They had not committed any crime. They had not done anything wrong. The United States simply decided it was better to be safe than sorry, on the off chance that there was a spy among them. They should not have imprisoned these Japanese descendants in part because imprisoning innocent people contradicts the purpose of a war for freedom. In addition, the US forced them to leave their hard earned homes and live in deplorable conditions.

It all started in The United States, during World War 2. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned. There Only Crime was, being of Japanese ancestry. This is known as a Japanese—American Internment Camp. Where they kept many in stables and abandon horse tracks, because they kept taking more and more people. This Generation should never forget about this, for many reasons. The main reason is because it shows us how much freedom we have today. For example those 127,000 were kept because they were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land. The honest truth is 90% of those people never went to japan. So they were free Americans, and still had taken and imprisoned. Just to show how the world is today. We should never take anything granted. So many lives were lost because of false discrimination.

The internment of Japanese Canadians during WW2 was noted as being historically significant at the time due to many suffering from forced relocation, internment camps, and being referred as “enemy aliens or “undesirables”. Beginning in early 1942, in regards to the War Measures Act, all Japanese Canadians living near the British Columbia coast were called to move to the Okanagan Valley (Cranny & Moles 159). They were then relocated and placed in temporary relocation centres. Shortly after 21,000 were removed from their homes (Marsh 11), businesses owned by Japanese Canadians were sold by the government to pay for the detention in camps (Marsh 1). Conditions in internment camps were poor, Tom Tamagi, a Japanese Canadian described his experience

In the 1940’s people in the USA were thinking about war with the Germans.After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the Americans were thinking about the war with Japanese army. The American people were scared at the time and did not want to go to war because of the Japanese and German army’s. The Japanese were treated unfairly.