The Prisoner Of War Camps

All throughout history, Prison war camps Sorta became a thing of the norm . Whether it is in Nazi ,Germany during World War II or The United States during the civil war. Both packed and riddled with disease, both brutal, no doubt, but one more than the other.

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.

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

During WW2 many efforts were performed to make the Japanese-American internees and American POWs in Japan feel invisible. There was more than 140,000 prisoners of war, and about 120,000 Japanese that were put in internment camps, during WW2. Although, they were made to feel invisible, each group found a way to resist the efforts. The POW’s were made to feel invisible by they had no contact home,they were made to feel that they lost their dignity,and they were beaten and starved. The Japanese put in internment camps were innocent people that were made to feel invisible by they had to leave their houses,other belongings, and they were disconnected from the outside world.

Imagine your government blaming you for the actions of the race you come from and them ultimately imprisoning you with no remorse. During WWII this situation happened to innocent Japanese Americans out of fear and prejudice. Americans put these innocent citizens in internment camps without solid evidence of them being spies and traitors.By the US acting on fear and prejudice we have damaged and harmed innocent Japanese Americans going against what America stands for and what is right.

In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued executive order 9066; resulting in the relocation of Japanese Americans. This order authorized the evacuation of all people that deemed a threat to security, and the force removal and internment during World War Two of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the Pacific coast. Japanese Americans suffered severe violations of their civil liberties; there was no line drawn between the complex issues of individual rights vs. the demand of national security. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec 7 1941, Americans reacted with fear and hostility towards those of Japanese descent living in the U.S. Some say these harsh effects Japanese face was because they

In 1865, prison camps in the south were terrible places. Southerners took several pictures of the people in the camps and they looked like skeletons, Northerns were horrified that this was going on. Prison camps were poorly managed, over crowded and covered with diseases. The prison camp commanders were extremely cruel and very unorganized. One of the worst prison camps during the Civil War was Andersonville, it held the more people than any other prison camp. 13,000 people died in this camp in the 14 months it existed.

The topic that has been chosen for the term paper in the pro seminar course is Japanese Internment Camps. During World War II, a significant number of American citizens of Japanese descent were forced into American internment camps, strictly because of their ethnic background. Having committed no crime, the Japanese forced into the internment camps were treated similarly to that of Japanese prisoners of war that had been captured by the Allies. The forced relocation and eventual internment of Japanese Americans was brought about by the event that occurred on December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 began as any typical Sunday on the Hawaiian Islands. Then at 7:55 am, the fateful Sunday on the island of Oahu would be forever remembered in the history books. At 7:55 am, three hundred and fifty three Japanese planes that were launched from Japan’s six biggest and best aircraft carriers, located only two hundred miles off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands, bombed the U.S. Naval Base. The attack by the Japanese was a complete surprise to everyone, and as a result American casualties were heavy. After the attack, fifteen American ships had been sunk including four battleships. In addition, one American ship was capsized, and one had run aground. Also, one hundred and eighty eight American planes were destroyed, and nearly two thousand four hundred men lost their lives. Prior to September 11, 2001, the attack on Pearl Harbor was the worst attack on U.S. soil

The decision to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II was an impurity in the United States’ reputation for maintaining democracy and individual rights. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor during World War II, great hysteria spread through the United States, urging President Roosevelt to pass the now infamous Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal of all people of Japanese-American descent. More than 100,000 people were displaced and their lives were changed forever (Tremayne). The tragedies that these people suffered bring into question the reasoning behind the order and its constitutionality. Challenges were made to the constitutionality of the order in cases such as Korematsu vs. the United States that were ruled down. With hindsight bias, the immorality of Executive Order 9066 seems obvious, yet many at the time strongly felt that the right decision had taken place (“Personal Justice Denied”). The circumstances of war made the lines of morality blurry, distorting the decisions made. The Japanese American Relocation was an act of racism more than an act of protection, and was motivated primarily by a fear of foreign people.

December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and immediately there was distrust for people living in the United States with japanese ancestry. Most Americans at the time felt holding them in captivity was the best option for their safety. Although, their only crime was that they had Japanese ancestry and they were suspected of being loyal to their homeland of Japan. The relocation into internment in my opinion was not at all a bad or an unethical thing. As americans we were trying to ensure that everyone would be safe and stable.

World war II was massive, bloody, and partially unexpected. When the policy of appeasement failed most european countries were left in a tight spot. But america remained neutral. One of Washington’s messages on his farewell address was to remain neutral, and we did. At least, until japan attacked pearl harbor, and germany and italy declared war on us. This caused massive panic in the U.S.. It wasn't until three japanese-american hostilly defended a fallen japanese pilot when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to take action against japanese-americans. He passed executive order 9066 which forced japanese americans into crowded, dirty camps. FDR’s decision to pass executive order 9066 was heavily unjustified and was a bad idea overall.

World War II, created hysteria around the world that took years to get over. It affected so many different people, but, this essay will be focusing on the Japanese-AMERICANS affected during World War II. I am against the fact that these people were put into internment camps. My reasoning is that they didn’t pose a national threat, the internment camps promoted racism, and the internment camps can be see as a shameful episode on behalf of the US.

World War II was one of the most famous wars in world history, during the battle many people were captured and put into POW camps. Many of these camps around the world were very strict, and the Japanese were no exception. Many prisoners were either starved or beaten to death. Louie was no stranger to these beatings or starvation. While in the Japanese POW camp, Louie was beaten daily and was extremely underfed. Louie was an Olympic athlete, and then later enlisted into the Army where he became a bombardier in the war and was captured by the Japanese after his plane the Green Hornet crashed and he was left to survive on a raft for 47 days. There were many survival traits that allowed Louie to survive during such a horrendous time, such as perseverance,

Did you know that 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz, but in all the concentration camps put together 11 million people were killed. The concentration camps is where Jews died by starving, diseases, gas chambers, and tested on. My topic is about concentration camps and how people lived in them and how they were being tortured for being Jewish. The.The concentration camps was an awful time in history where innocent people were killed in vicious ways and some Jews made it till they rescued them but then later died of diseases.

In World War 2 there existed many holding facilities that were known as concentration camps. These camps were erected to contain people that the Nazis deemed “unfit” to live. These people were valued less than human by the Nazis, and that was enough justification for them to commit terrible atrocities to these people. The atrocities ranged greatly, but some of the most horrific were the medical experiments conducted on these innocent people.