Similarities Between Jewish Concentration Camps And Japanese Internment Camps

Both of the camps violated people's rights as citizens. The Nazi and the Japanese camps were illegal and a complete violation of people’s freedom. Both the Jews and the Japanese people were forced out of their homes. Ronald Reagan addressed this when he said, “Over one hundred thousand persons of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes…” Anne Frank also addressed this in her diary on November 19, 1942, when she stated, “They knock on every door, asking whether any Jews live there. If so, the whole family is immediately taken away.” The Japanese and the Jews were both considered “the enemy”. The Jews were the Nazi’s enemy and the Japanese were America’s enemy. These a good points but they are not strong enough. The camps were both illegal but one is more illegal than the other. The Japanese camps were more illegal because there is more freedom in the U.S. than there is in Germany. Just because the Japanese and the Jews were forcefully take out of their homes, they are not the same thing. This point makes them alike but not the same. The Jewish and the Japanese were the enemy but not of the same people. Despite their differences, the Nazi and the Japanese camps did have quite a bit in common but that does not make them the

The Jewish Concentration camps had substandard living conditions compared to the Japanese Internment camps, “Then Jack would snap back to reality, his stomach turning inside out from hunger, his body infested with lice, men around him dying from hunger, disease and sorrow” (Warren 72). This shows the reader the Jews

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.

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.

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.

The Japanese had to go to camps mainly because it was their civil duty. They could not function properly in society because of racism, especially when the Japanese attacked pearl harbor. After the attack nobody trusted Japanese-Americans. The government felt that they needed to protect them from society. Americans had very strong feelings towards these people and there was propaganda made to encourage the withdrawal of Japanese people. Even the creators of looney tune cartoons made an episode of how the Japanese man is a savage and extremely ruthless person to anything. Some episodes were about the Germans as well, and how they train the youth to believe in these horrible things, and growing up

“ I think of the close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth.” This is what Anne Frank wrote about the Nazis in her diary. Although, the Americans weren’t much nicer to the Japanese. During the 1940’s these 2 groups of people,the Jews and Japanese-Americans, were being discriminated against. Though for very different reasons. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing because Jews weren’t being treated like people, both camps served different purposes, and the Japanese were not being killed like the Jews .

The Jewish concentration camps were way worse than the Japanese internment camps, “Then Jack would snap back to reality, his stomach turning inside out from hunger, his body infested in lice, men around him dying from hunger, disease and sorrow” (Warren 72). This shows the reader the Jews were living in the concentration

Two months after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt authorized “Executive order 9066”. Which made More than 110,000 Japanese in the U.S to relocate to internment camps for reason of “national security”. The United States feared that they’re could have been Japanese spies inside America so the government relocated most Japanese immigrants to camps. It was one of the saddest moments in America that the government of America took actions on innocent people just because their heritage. America’s internment camps are similar yet different to Hitler’s concentrations camps.

Some may say that Concentration camps seem the same to Internment camps but this argument is misleading because there are more differences than similarities and one example of this could be the reasons behind why Hitler and FDR imprisoned the citizens. Hitler imprisoned the Jews because he didn't agree with their personal beliefs and he saw them as a disgrace. FDR saw the Japanese as a threat to his country after the bombing of pearl Harbor in 1971. Another example

     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

For my research paper, I have chosen to compare and contrast the Jewish concentration camps and the Japanese internment camps. This will border around how and why the camps were built, their claimed purpose and their real purpose, how it affected both the victims, the victors and the bystanders (then and now), and the result it has made to the present world. If possible, I would also like to bring the reservations camps into my research paper. Although the reservation camps were very different from concentration camp and internment camps, I still think that there is still a similarity between all of them.

The relocation of Japanese Americans was an event that occurred within the United States during World War II. On February 19th, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese Americans living in the West Coast to be evacuated from the area and relocated to internment camps all across the United States, where they would be imprisoned. Approximately 120,000 people were sent to the camps and the event lasted through the years 1942 and 1945. The main cause of the relocation and internment of these people was because of fear made among Japanese people after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Citizens of the United States had been worrying about the possibility of Japanese residents of the country aiding Japan, and/or secretly trying to destroy American companies.

Jews were killed because Hitler was an evil man, as opposed to, the US government did not kill any Japanese-Americans on purpose, their death was of natural causes. The Jewish concentration camp’s were a lot harsher. Like when the old people and children could not work, they were gassed in a chamber. Another reason why the two camp’s would not be the same would be that the Japanese-Americans had to govern themselves, like what George Takei said in his interview about the Japanese Internment camps“ We help church services, had our own newspapers, built our own schools, and some of us even made camouflage nets for the US army.” All of these reasons might not be true, because the US could have been lying, so that is what makes this so interesting; the different

And because they decided to segregate Japanese from the Americans. In 1906 The San Francisco board of education passed a resolution to segregate white children from children of the Chinese, Japanese and the Korean, Them doing this the reason was because of the color they had. They were the only ones being highhanded but the government has not taken highhanded action against Germans and Italians. There were no German or Italians put into such camps like the Japanese