The Holocaust And Japanese Internment Camps

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

First of all, the Holocaust started in 1933, when Hitler became the leader of Germany. Although Hitler was originally an Austrian, he was a German soldier

The issues of Japanese-American internment camps is one of the most controversial, yet important time periods of American history. Many have asked: Why should we learn about this event? The event of Japanese-American internment camps has changed the way America and its citizens are looked upon. As Americans, this event is important to learn so that an injustice like this will never happen again in our history. This event has helped many people gain more rights and civil liberties. This event has also helped other groups fight for their rights and freedoms. Although this event had caused fear and pain, it had changed America and its treatment toward citizens of different descents and ethic backgrounds.

The Holocaust was the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups deemed inferior by the Nazis. The Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler, the fascist leader of Germany that would lead the world into World War II. He and

Less than minimum wage was their only option, as the Japanese Americans lived in constant fear and never knowing if they would live to see the next day. Each camp over time, began to follow its own routine or schedule, such as, children going to school everyday and adults having jobs, even if the Japanese Americans were only paid $5 (“Japanese- American Internment”). The daily life from afar was not changed much but, up close the day-to-day structure changed tremendously. The traditional structure of the Japanese family was diminished by the informal structure of the camps, families were split apart and the respect for elders slowly disappeared (“Japanese - Behind”). Almost an everyday life of those in the camps completely changed, whether

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America turned its fears on the Japanese and Japanese-Americans that resided on the nation’s Pacific coast. The Japanese were forced to relocate to internment camps, leave their American life behind, endured the harsh internment camp conditions, and still faced obstacles upon release, such as not being able to return to their regular lives. Despite the constitutional rights that the Japanese Americans had, they endured the hardships of their uprooting, subpar camp conditions, and faced their losses after their release and closing of the internment camps.

Japanese Internment Camps and Nazi Concentration Camps are essentially the same thing because both Jews and Japanese Americans had their rights taken away, they were discriminated, and they were dehumanized. WWII was a bad time period for America but we made it through. There are not as many ways for the camps to be different than the

Holocaust survivors give great insight to the realities of what the life was like within the gates of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Not to say that the research of historians, writers, and professors does not provide pivotal information to the study of the Holocaust; but their research provides secondary sources and accounts. Primary sources for historic moments allows a reader to get into the mind and psyche of the writer who is sharing his or hers experiences. The ability to become one with their most inner thoughts of fear, sadness, despair, happiness, joy, etc. makes a reader feel as if they are going through these moments alongside them. For survivors of the Holocaust, concentration camps, death camps, and World War II; such a connection is created with their listeners, viewers and readers by way of these primary sources. With father time working against them, the chances to speak with or listen to these individuals in person are quickly and sadly coming to an end. Which leaves society to use the literature of these surviving people to truly understand what life was like for them during the reign of terror caused by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. Primo Levi’s, Survival in Auschwitz, offers just that connected and emotion to current and future generated as he illustrates what life was like for Jewish people during the Holocaust and World War II while surviving in concentration camps. Primo is a survivor of one of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps

The Holocaust began in 1939 and ended September 2 1945. The Holocaust began because of one man named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was the ruler of Germany who felt that Germany was a disrespected country and they would eventually be taken out by some bigger country. Hitler felt that the Jewish population were responsible for the the state of Germany. He also thought the Treaty of Versailles was to strict and couldn’t ever allow Germany to expand because of it. Hitler managed to convince an entire country to follow his words and would soon start World War 2 in which he was responsible for the deaths of over 1 million Jewish men, women, and children.

Following the Second World War and the gradual acceptance of the Holocaust, the historiographical field devoted decades to the analysis of the causes, motives, perpetrators, and consequences of the worst genocide the world had seen. While thousands of scholarly articles and books have been published on the matter, Snyder veered from the Holocaust trend and focused on a particular geographical area, one he would come to call the “bloodlands”, after the fourteen million civilians who were “victims of murderous policy”. His book captures the horrors of systematic and targeted killings, ranging from mass shootings to induced starvation, through the lens of state policies and children’s naïve hopes for survival. The decision to move away from Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps and focus instead on the impact the Soviet Union and Third Reich had on the lives of men, women and children in the occupied zones of Eastern Europe sheds light on a region and a time that had unfortunately been largely reduced to a few notable locations. Snyder’s methodological research and vivid anecdotal injections allow for a striking comparison between Hitler’s Nazi regime and Stalin’s “political” action in the bloodlands, but ultimately the distinguishing feature between the two campaigns of atrocity was the relationship between ideology and practical circumstance.