Similarities Between Jewish And Japanese Internment Camps

The U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during the 1940s was a major event in U.S. history, but it is often overlooked by many. It affected hundreds of thousands of people of Japanese descent, whether they were citizens or not. The incarceration of those placed in camps was affected mentally and it caused many of the internees to develop PTSD or otherwise commonly known as post-traumatic stress disorder (Potts, 1994, p. 1). The camps affected how the Japanese were viewed in society during the time period of the camps and following the liberation of them. It also changed how the Japanese viewed society. This paper will focus on the cultural and social aspects of the Internal Improvements.

World War II was a terrible, chaotic war with many deaths. Innocent people were killed, only because they were a different race. During World War II, the Germans/Nazis absolutely hated the Jews for no good reason. There were prisons built to torture and use Jews for forced labor. Those prisons were called concentration camps. In World War II, three of these concentration camps were same of the largest ones created and were called the Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and the Dachau. The Auschwitz had three main camps and was located 37 miles of Krakow, the Buchenwald was constructed in 1937 about five miles northwest of Weimar, and the Dachau was one of the first camps created and has an incident that leads to many deaths.

The Japanese internment camps differed from the Jewish concentration camps. The Japanese internment camps were simply a holding place. The camps were not designed for the torture of the Japanese

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 worse. The Jewish people were put ti to concentration camps but by Nazis by Adolph Hitler was racist towards them. The Japanese were relocated to internment camps. The way of life in these camps are way worse then anyone knows.

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

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

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.

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)

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. Even if there were a few differences in the two types of camps. A camp is a camp (during WWII). We must not forget WWII so the world can make sure that thing like internment and/or concentration camps never happen

They were killing or sending Jews and other groups to concentration camps, work camps, or death camps. The conditions in those camps were horrible, people were being treated inhumanely. The Nazis has been keeping their secrets well over the past years. The United States didn't enter the war until 1941, right after the Pearl Harbor Attack. Then in 1945, the war ended when the United States invented the atomic bombs and dropped two bombs on the country of Japan. It was an extremely sad event because during this time period, many people has lost their lives including American soldiers and innocent Japanese citizens.

During the Holocaust, they were willing to spend great amounts of money to kill the Jews just as long as they were all dead. The Jews were killed in gas chambers, shot down oneby-one into mass graves, and tortured for no good reason (Maus 241-244). ! The Holocaust and Amenian Genocide were very similar for three main reasons.

If you were Jewish or Japanese you were forced to go to the camps. When they were sent to camps, there were many disadvantages. Many of the Jewish and Japanese people had to start life all over again and once they had come back from surviving the camps they would have lost all communication with friends and family. Both races were also told to take whatever they can carry to the camps and to dispose the rest away. As stated in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, “‘I burned all my own wedding photos”’(Ford 74).

As I began my research I came across evidence that these camps were not concentration camps which helps the government’s defense easily. These internment camps were never set out to harm any Japanese

There were many horrors of concentration camps such as being tortured, put to death, and contained poor living condition. Jews were basically in the camp for ever until they died. Almost every Jew who went to a camp died, and those lucky enough to be put in camp during liberation lived.

The Holocaust nearly made the Jewish population and religion disappear from the face of the Earth. From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945; Adolf Hitler, German politician and leader of the Nazi party, ran the Holocaust all over Germany and Eastern Europe. Prisoners and victims of the Holocaust include: the majority of the Jewish population, German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and people accused of socially deviant or socially unacceptable behavior. They were sent to many different areas that had different purposes. The most used places they were sent are called concentration camps. Once they entered the concentration camps, there was no escaping; those people officially became prisoners. There were 23 main concentration camps and around 900 sub camps. Concentration camps tricked the Jewish people into coming into them by offering them a better life on the welcoming signs outside. Some of the main camps had many different inhumane uses. All of the camps are notorious for their cruel and evil ways of everything that they did to prisoners, such as the genocide the Holocaust caused.