Similarities Between The Holocaust And Japanese Internment

Imagine being forced out of your home. Imagine losing your dignity, your pride, your freedom. That is what the people in the Nazi concentration camps and in the Japanese internment camps went through. The camps seem similar but are they essentially the same thing? During World War 2 Jews were put in Nazi concentration camps. Japanese-Americans were put in Japanese Internment camps by the U.S. government. The Jews and the Japanese were both forced out of their homes. Japanese internment camps are not essentially the same thing as Nazi concentration camps served a different purpose as the Japanese internment camps, the Jews and the Japanese people were treated differently, and the Jews were forced into labor and the Japanese were not.

The Holocaust was one of the worst and most horrific events that took place in world history, the largest attempted genocide ever. The Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the largest events that has ever violated human rights. The Holocaust began in 1933 with Adolf Hitler leading the anti-Jew campaign which ultimately led to the torture and murder of over six million Jews in Germany. Hitler’s campaign not only affected the Jews but others would be labeled as “undesirable” as well. Gypsies and homosexuals as well as political and religious opposition would also be eliminated. The Holocaust is taught as a mass genocide of the Jews, but more than five million others would undergo

Throughout history of the world , we have experienced many horrific occurrences, two of these being the Holocaust and Japanese Internment. Although both of these incidents are terrible, the Holocaust was much more miserable. The Jewish people were placed into Concentration camps by the Nazis, but Adolph Hitler was racist towards them. The Japanese were relocated to Internment camps. The way of life in these camps is way negligent.

Both the Jewish and Japanese camps were discriminatory towards the Jewish and Japanese race. However the Japanese internment camps were put into place out of fear, because Japan dropped a bomb on the United States. While the Jewish concentration camp was put into place because the Jewish “caused” the Great depression. However the camps are similar because they were made for the same reason which was racial discrimination. Both the Jewish and Japanese camp homes were ransacked, and were forcefully put out their homes. Their business were also taken away. Therefore they were put in the camps against their will and were not happy with living there. In both America and Germany the government claimed innocent, when really they were the guilty ones. If it were not for the United States of Germany government the camps would have never been created. Which would have never led to racial discrimination towards the Jewish or Japanese. Many would think that America was just as guilty as Germany, for the only difference is the amount of people killed. Although some if these points are true, they are not strong enough. The Japanese were put into the camps out of fear while the Jews were put into camp for the feeling of ultimate power

In concentration camps, they slept on concrete bunk beds as well as wooden bunk beds that were meant to hold 52 horses, they had no heat, the ceilings were damp and leaky, the prisoners only got 1,300 calories a day, that’s 500 less calories than what the average human should have, they had to work about 10 hours each day. In internment camps, they were located in areas where there's harsh weather, they had schools and medical care in the camps, the japanese were payed to work at the camps, but many people did die from the poor amount of health care or the intenses stress they were put under while being in the camps. They had there own animal stalls that was almost like their home. The prisoners i n the camps were almost treated as slaves, making FDR and Hitler feel like they had more power.

Although, some may think that Nazi camps and the Japanese camps were the same thing. One group was being treated like dirt , the others living a relatively normal life inside a fence. In conclusion, the Nazis were the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. Put in perfect perspective by Anne Frank. Although, the Americans weren’t any nicer to the Japanese. Both groups did wrong to these innocent groups of

For the past 300 years, the world’s society has displayed lots of unbelievable human cruelty. For example, slavery in the 18th and 19th century, African Americans were forced into harsh work labor because of their skin color. Then in the 20th century, a determined dictator, Adolf Hitler, murdered and tortured eleven million lives. This horrifying event was called the Holocaust, it occurred in 1933 but ended in 1945. Adolf Hitler was angered about the result of World War 1, so he blamed Jewish people, the disabled, and other groups. During the holocaust, the eleven million lives were forced into harsh work labors or was put into gas chambers and was killed instantly. People described the Holocaust as inhumane act, and the people that survived it, could really say it was a scarring memory.

Over the span of nine months 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forced from their homes, stripped of their belongs and denied basic human rights (1). During World War 2, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government felt people of Japanese origin could be a threat to the Canadian war effort. Because of this, thousands of Japanese Canadian citizen’s were moved to internment camps in British Columbia. The internment of the Japanese Canadians was wrong because it was completely unjustified, most of the people put in the internment camps had a Canadian citizenship, were treated very poorly and there wasn’t any proof that they would do anything negatively effect Canada during the war.

Japanese Americans were treated harshly because Americans turned their anger on the Japanese Americans for a crime that was committed by Japan. Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, after that the Americans had a fear of being attacked on the west coast, this caused the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. The internment of Japanese Americans was disgraceful and in hindsight unnecessary. But, because the United States feared that Japan was to attack the Japanese Americans would stay loyal to their country and fight against them, so their relocation was a strategy to defeat Japan. Still taking innocent Japanese Americans away from their homes for no reason other than them having Japanese blood in them is absolutely disgraceful. Especially because some of them fought with the United States in WWI. They had to spend the days of the war crammed in camps. Two and a half years later the order was reformed, and in 1945 the last camp was closed. Japanese were sent to internment camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, with the United States fearing that they would be attacked on the west coast by the Japanese, they sent the Japanese Americans to internment camps for the time of the war.

Everyone knows about Hitler and the Nazis, how they have done very bad things to the world. However, even though the Nazis were the worst of the worst, that does not mean that the United States were perfect either. During World War II, the Axis was formed, which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Japan saw Pearl Harbor as a Naval threat, and on December 7, 1941, Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor, destroying a good part of the United States Navy. The United States joined World War II, but they were mostly joining to oppose the Japanese. The US also placed all of their Japanese and Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, even though the vast majority of them were innocent, and were loyal to the United States.

6 million people died in the Holocaust during World War II. The Holocaust was harsh, brutal, and a very sad event where Nazi Germany captured and killed Jews in camps. The bombing of Pearl Harbor led to Japanese Americans getting put into camps because of their origin. All though both of these were concentration camps they were very different. The camps were different because the care of the people, the purpose and the aftermath was different.

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

In Germany there were concentration camps for Jews, in Japan they were for Chinese, and in the United States, after WWII, there were internment camps for Japanese immigrants and citizens. To be clear, the difference between internment and concentration camps is that The internment wasn’t spread equally. All Japanese and Japanese Americans on the West Coast were relocated to internment camps, however in Hawaii only 1,200-1,800 of about 150,000 Japanese Americans were interned. In addition, 62% of those taken into internment were American citizens that had never even been to Japan. The internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a disgrace to America.

The concentration camps were awful, daily routines took peoples identities, sanitation hardly existed and they were beat more than anyone could count. The holocaust hurt and killed many innocent people. Those who survived are lucky their alive but are burdened with the pain and the memories. They are scarred for

The Japanese came to America during the 1880s. In March, 1854 the Japanese’s signed a treaty to open trade with other countries. This concluded to Japans economy to become very wealthy. Now that the Japanese had ties to America and other countries, they had many new opportunities.