In Germany there were concentration camps for Jews, in Japan they were for Chinese, and in the

The camps that the Japanese-Americans were taken to had the worse conditions imaginable. “More than 120,000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry were incarcerated in 10 camps scattered throughout the Western United States during World War II” (Children of the Camps Project 1). Detainees spent many years in these camps. They were locked behind barbed wire fences, and armed guards patrolled the camps. The conditions were comparable to the Jewish camps in Eastern Europe. Entire families lived in quarters that were poorly constructed and horribly cramped. These areas were also unbearably cramped and unclean. There was also no hot water for dishes or showers in the living quarters. In addition, lice was a huge problem in the internment camps. These camps and the laws that our government passed against the Japanese community were atrocious. The United States experienced a terrible tragedy when Pearl Harbor was attacked. However, the American government had no right to make these innocent Americans prisoners of war. During the 1940s and 1950s the Japanese

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

Japanese-American Internment was the relocation of many Japanese-American and Japanese descendents into camps known as “War Relocation Camps” during World War II (specifically after the attack on Pearl Harbor). In 1942, the United States government relocated and interned approximately 120,000 Japanese-American citizens and people of Japanese descent into relocation camps. This internment lasted for about four years, and was backed by the government as well as the president. The last relocation camp was closed in January 1946, five months after World War II officially ended.

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.

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

In conclusion, concentration camps and Internment camps are very different to each other when you compare the two. The reasons behind why the people were put into camps were different, the death statistics and the conditions that the camps

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)

After the attack on the Pearl Harbor in 1941, a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy air service, United States was thrilled and it provoked World War II. Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. President FDR ordered all Japanese-Americans regardless of their loyalty or citizenship, to evacuate the West Coast. This resulted over 127,000 people of Japanese descent relocate across the country in the Japanese Internment camps. Many of them were American Citizens but their crime was being of Japanese ancestry. They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs and in some cases family members were separated and put into different internment camps. There were ten internment camps were placed in “California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas”(History.com). However, until the camps were fully build, the Japanese people were held in temporary centers. In addition, almost two-thirds of the interns were Japanese Americans born in the United States and It made no difference that many of them had never even been to Japan. Also, Japanese-American veterans of World War I were forced to leave their homes and relocate in the internment camps. Japanese families in internment camps dined together, children were expected to attend school, and adults had the option of working for earning $5 per day. The United States government hoped that the internment camps could make it self-sufficient by farming to produce food.

Out of all ten internment camps in America, Manzanar is the most well-known. The harshness of this camp lead to constant news stories and televised programs displaying events that occurred there such as shootings, strikes, and a constant feeling of uneasiness and unrest throughout the community. There was no such thing as privacy in Manzanar; a luxury taken for granted in today’s society was unknown to those who had to survive in Manzanar. All men and women shared toilets as well as showers and lived in barracks with 200-400 other people in them. Each room had about four people and was furnished with nothing but an oil stove, light bulb, cots, blankets, and mattresses filled with straw. The living conditions were inhumane, with no privacy shacks that were so poorly constructed they could barely hold together. Because it was located in the desert, Manzanar was hot during the day and freezing at night. In order to receive food, prisoners had to wait in long lines in front of the mess hall and were constantly sick from eating spoiled food.

World War II is the most brutal war in the history of the world. Both the U.S. and Germany put innocent people in internment camps (in the U.S.) and concentration camps (in Germany). Both countries treated both groups differently, but both were the same. The United States gave the Japanese fairly normal lives with the exception of that the Japanese could not leave the “cage”, while Germany gave the Jews next to no rights at all. Japanese internment camps and Jewish concentration camps were the same because each country wanted to be safe from the cause of their problems, both countries were both racist to the society that they put in the camps, and the two countries were both afraid of the other race.

Race tracks and fairgrounds are a few examples of makeshift temporary camps in Phase 1 (Estes). During Phase 1 permanent camps were being built for Phase 2 of the Japanese Internment. Phase 2 camps were surrounded by barbed wire fences and evacuees lived in barracks. Each block of barracks only had one set of bathrooms, one laundry room, one ironing room, a cafeteria, and a recreation facility (Estes). Also Phase 2 camps tried to make life more normal for Japanese Americans by providing stores, hospitals, and self government to the evacuees (Relocation of Japanese Americans). Stores were the only way to get goods not given to you or that an evacuee brought. Also they were one of the only forms of employment for the Japanese Americans. Also any additional money had to have come from selling their belongings before coming on the trip. Remember that they had to sell their property and belongings for way below their actual value. All jobs paid similar low wages which led to issues for the Japanese Americans. Many of these issues destroyed their Japanese culture (McGrath). One issue was that children were earning as much money as their parents. This led to parents losing control of their children and destroying father son relationships. Another issue was that families no longer shared meal time together as children chose to eat with their friends. This was one of many Japanese traditions that vanished during their time in internment camps. Also

In internment camps the Japanese had low quality food that were a mixture of Japanese and American food. In concentration camps the food was horrible “you must have your mess-tin in hand, no mess-tin, no food, approximately 10 ounces of bread and some coffee” (Châtel). The life in the internment camps were better than those in the concentration camps, the Japanese that were put in the internment camp were kept as prisoner but were eventually freed and receive an apology from the US government. The people in the concentration camps were not usually kept as prisoner but as slaves and test subjects, they were killed and used as lab rats for the Nazi’s experiments. Both camps did have their population behind fences however the children in the internment camps had more freedom than those in the concentration camps. The children in internment camps play sports to help

The American government evacuated approximately 120,000 Japanese Nationals, American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, and placed them in internment camps at the beginning of World War II. Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and businesses, forced into relocation camps in the deserts of California, Arizona, into the mountains of Idaho, and small towns in the southern United States. These were Japanese American people of unquestionable loyalty to the United States. These were citizens denied the rights of normal citizens under the United States Constitution. Americans who had volunteered to fight in the war for the United States, and against the Japan. They wanted to fight for the United

For starters, because there were teenagers at Heart Mountain, there was a high school for their education. According to Mamoru Inouye, students at the high school were able to compete against area high schools and treated well by opponents. There were even Japanese Americans on other teams that were not interned since it was not the west coast. Caucasian teachers at Heart Mountain quickly cycled through because of poor government handling of the school. Consequently, Japanese-American teachers were not paid as well as their Caucasian counterparts (58-60). Secondly, many internees had jobs, though their pay was low. Money made at these jobs could be used to buy essentials in camp stores (Bent). The third difference was food quality. At first, the food was terrible at Heart Mountain. However, it improved and it was discovered people working in administration had stolen food intended for internees (Bent). Finally, the government considered internees for the draft. Officials devised two questions to determine their eligibility: (1) if they were willing to renounce loyalty to the Japanese emperor and (2) if they were loyal to the U.S. Many people answered no to these questions due to their resentment of getting their rights

In the Holocaust Documentary the narrator said ,”The Jews were put into rooms and gassed.” This quote shows the inhumane ways of the Nazis and the harsh conditions in the camps. Meanwhile in the Japanese-American Internment camps the United States did not kill any Japanese. So, there is a difference between the the camps because no Japanese were executed. In the Concentration Camps the Germans did not even spare the children from the gas chambers and even worse they experimented on them.