Prison War Camps

2. On page 12, the narration changes. Why might it be necessary for someone else to begin telling Janie’s story now?

To begin, concentration camps did not originate in World War II. In fact, this idea for a camp was invented by soldiers and generals in other wars that occurred not too many years before The Holocaust. The first concentration was brought up by general Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau in the Cuban insurrection against Spain in 1896. Concentration camps were also used in the Philippine-American war in the first decade of the 1900’s. The concentration camps in these wars just mentioned were used mainly for labor and penal. However, armies weren’t as big on execution as the Nazi’s were. The Nazi’s bumped up the idea of concentration camps to turn it

In the beginning the concentration camps they were not even planned, to be mainly for Jews, in the beginning they had started with criminals and political prisoners. Later on Adolf Hitler wanted to have a “better” future, so who ever interfered in his plan was a threat so he had sent them to jail. People who

When faced with tragedy and trauma, sometimes the only choice is to flee your country in order to once again live in safety. However, this safety is not guaranteed in a new country. While not nearly as deadly as in their country of origin, immigrants often face hardships of a different kind in their new country of refuge. Through these experiences, immigrants, especially women immigrants, are led to learn that resilience and strength are necessary for their survival within a new country.

How would the government feel if they were forced to go to internment camps from their home?

The camps were definitely not somewhere people wanted to be, but it wasn’t really their decision. They all suffered and went through hardships like staying in the same place, not being fed well, and being murdered. No one even knew where they were going, but they ended up there and that’s where they stayed and stood for hours at a

Prison camps were very brutal and had hard living conditions. There were some prisons that stood out, such as Andersonville, Alton Federal Prison Belle Isle, and Salisbury prison, which was one of the better prisons. Andersonville was not a good prison to be at and it had 45,000 people in the 12 months it was around

There were a few camps, such as the Salisbury Prison Camp, that had acceptable, though still not desirable, treatment of those in its residence. However, the majority of camps were unforgiving locations of torture and agony for many soldiers. An example of such a place is Point Lookout, a Union camp in Maryland. Overcrowding, as previously discussed, was one of the main reasons that this is regarded as such a terrible place. This also contributed to many other problems, such as disease and lack of shelter. Confederate prisons were not better in comparison, though. Camp Sumter was a prime example of this. Many refer to it as one of the worst camps in the war, mainly because of a very high death rate of 29% and a lack of clean drinking water for any

Many citizens of the United States immediately after the Civil War knew very little of the atrocities of that occurred in the prisoner of war camps. News that their family member was in a prisoner of war camp was usually dreaded by the family of the captured soldiers. While being dead was much worse the families never truly knew what was going on inside the camps. For the Confederacy, many feared Rock Island, but there was a just as deadly camp just north of Rock Island in Chicago. Once the war had ended the atrocities of what occurred inside the prisoner of war camps became apparent. Suddenly multiple fingers were pointed at what was the culprit for such deplorable conditions. The pictures, descriptions, and accounts of what happened inside the prisoner of war camps became a part of not only history but the media as well. Multiple books were written about the prisoner of war camps, several works of fiction reference the prisoner of war camps. Andersonville is almost unanimously regarded as the worst camp for a Union soldier to get sent to. Rock Island seems to be the place that many agree as the worst camp that a Confederate soldier could get sent to. Rock Island is even mentioned in several works of fiction, including Gone With The Wind. In Gone With The Wind the main character Scarlett O’Hara’s sister in law, Melanie Wilkes received a letter telling her that her husband Ashley Wilkes had been captured and taken to a horrible place called Rock Island. However, while Rock

Concentration camps were not just relevant during the war, and they had a completely different meaning before it started. Prior to the war, tens of thousands of concentration camps were established and continued

The houses these “Relocation Centers” provided for the prisoners were, “tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind (Relocation 4).” “A family of five or six would normally occupy a single room twenty-five by twenty feet (Relocation 4).” These innocent American civilians were forced to share bathrooms with over 250 other inmates of the camp. The meals served in the mess halls were, “planned at an average cost of not more than 45 cents per person, per day (Relocation 4).” Evacuees, as the government would call the “prisoners”, were employed to run everything in the camp from the mess halls to the farmlands and even the hospitals, getting paid a mere 16 dollars a month for a 44-hour week (Relocation 4).

During World War Two both axis and allied powers had prisoners of war. The axis powers were more brutal and abusive then the allies. Prisoners were put in prisons called concentration camps. Prisoners would be packed into building called barracks and many slept in the same space with thin blankets. There were no mattresses and just wood to sleep on. People slept in bunks that were two to three beds high. Prisoners would get few hours of sleep and beds would crash on top of each other in people's sleep due to them being built fast and cheap. The barrack were cold and were heated only by a small coal

Concentration camps were used as an instrument of war by many countries who are fighting while in conflicts with other countries(“Concentration camps”). The camps were exceptionally efficient to imprison, work, and kill people against their will. Whenever Hitler and the Nazis got hold of the idea of concentration camps, more than eleven million people were murdered in a span of twelve years.

Those prisoners who were healthy enough and were not being experimented on were put to work. They had many of the building roads, draining marshes, and working in gravel pits. During wartime, in order to increase armament production, over 30 sub-camps were created where prisoners worked solely on armaments. These prisoners worked until they physically could not do anything else. Around 30,000 people died under these harsh conditions (Wigoder 89; USHMM 145).

Prison Camps was something that few people could take on. During the beginning of the war, the Salisbury Prison Camp, in North Carolina, was one of the few camps that wasn’t terrible to the prisoners. Prisoners didn’t get 5 course meals, but they got enough to live off of. Men were allowed to play baseball for fun and it wasn’t that dirty, but it was definitely not squeaky clean!