Us Soldiers And Nazi Concentration 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.

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

“The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead” (47); even when there is a break in between the horror and pain of working for Nazis in concentration camps and suffering from hunger, it is dead, empty and inhuman; this meaningful passage about the complete and utter truth of concentration camps comes from a memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel. Vocabulary in this passage, is nothing short of exemplary, the words completely compliment the message being shared in this quote. Elie Wiesel describes the atrocious Buna camp as if it were through an epidemic, an outbreak, rendering people empty and dead due to starvation, lack of sleep, and over exertion. This paints a complete and thorough visual of how he viewed concentration

World War II was a time of deliberate hate among groups of innocent people who were used. While the first thought that comes to mind is the Jewish people kept in Concentration Camps throughout the Holocaust, this is not it. Japanese-Americans were persecuted due to the fact that they looked like citizens of Japan, who had attacked the United States on December 7th, 1941 at the naval base, Pearl Harbor. This hatred toward the group was due to newspapers creating a scare for the American people, as well as the government restricting the rights of Japanese-Americans. The Japanese-Americans were mistreated during World War II for no other reason than being different. These men, women, and children were loathed by the American public for looking like the people of the Japanese army that had attacked the United States. These people were only hated by association, even though many had come to the United States to create a better life for their family.

They left them to starve with little food, to work in all terrible,deplorable, uncouth conditions all for them to feel and to be treated like vile animals. Prisoners even acted like animals fighting for food,water and clothing - anything to get them to live one more day. A lack of compassion for others can not change what they saw in the concentration camp ”bela katz- son of a big tradesman from our town-had arrived at Birkenau with the first transport, a week before us. When heard of our arrival, he managed to get word to us that, having been chosen for his strength, he had himself put his father’s own body into the crematoria oven “ (Wiesel 33) Having to put his own father into his own death bed is a harrowing experience and not being able to protest at the fear of his own death is an irrefutable memory that will never be forgotten. The nazis and their unvarnished mistreatment,ciless hostility that showed no compassion for the prisoners “ then came the march past the victims two men were no longer alive .their tongues were hanging out swollen and bluish . but the third rope was still moving; the child too light was still breathing ….. And so he remained for more than half an hour lingering between life and death,writhing before our eyes.and we were forced to look at him at close range he was still alive when i passed him .his tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished”(Wiesel 65) . death

Imagine being taken out of you home to place of the unknown. There is a lot of chaos and horror. You don’t know who the trust. The government is coming to your neighborhoods and taking you and your family to internment camps just because the government does not trust anyone of your ethnicity. That sounds horrible, right? Well, during World War 2 the United States of America sent Japanese- Americans to internment camps because the government could not trust people of the Japanese decent. They were told that the Japanese- Americans will tell the enemy, Japan, all of secrets about war, that America will do to defeat the Japanese. But, by sending these innocent Americans to these camps is just unjustified, cruel and horrible. This essay will talk about why sending these people to these internment camps were dreadful and unacceptable.

Bang! Boom! All you can see is darkness, but you hear as if outside. Prisoners of war were captured everywhere during WWII. POW camps had better treatment and were better than than other concentration camps.

Not many cared to live any longer. They had nothing. "Those who had gold in their mouths were listed by numbers, I had a gold crown."(49) They were skin and bone. They got just enough food to keep them alive and suffering. Many died everyday, yet no one even remembered, they were all soon forgotten. "Listen to me kid. Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, every man for himself... Let me give you advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You can't help him anymore. You should be taking his ration... I thought deep down, not daring to admit to myself, to late to save your old man." (110) their identity was so lost he almost considered taking his dads

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 1942 thousands of Japanese were inturned after an attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. The U.S had been neutral up until that point, but the attack brought America into the war. The Japanese were interned because of the risk of espionage, at least according to the government. Although the government thought it was okay, the Government should not have inturned thousands of Japanese.

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.

“Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled.” Elie Wiesel was a young boy, only 15 years of age, when he encountered the tortures of the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz. Another Auschwitz survivor, Susan Pollack, experienced the horrors of her family being taken away right before her eyes (Connolly) .The life stories of Elie Wiesel and Susan Pollack are two examples showing the graveness of the mass butchery and abuse the Auschwitz prisoners endured, therefore portraying their immense joy when they were liberated by the Soviet soldiers on January 27,1945 (Wiesel 92).

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was unexpected. The United States suffered heavy losses in the war. This unintended war finally caused American fought back towards Japan. Many Japanese-Americans were being held in detention in a state of intense military preparedness. They were suspected of passing information to the Japanese army or threatening American national security. Many of them were sent to concentration camps without trial or conviction. This measure was disrespectful to Japanese-American human rights.

During World War II, most of the countries, after invading a land, took adversary soldiers who surrendered as prisoners. They were, most of the time, sent to concentration camps. Although the treatment of these prisoners of war (POWs) was different from country to country, it was mostly harsh and ignorant. According to Gavan Daws, a historian, Japanese concentration camps are the ones, where the behavior of the military was the most brutal and ruthless. Although the Japanese Imperial government had vowed to treat prisoners of war with consideration and appreciation, they dealt with the detainees fiercely while medicinal treatment was apathetic. Japanese military is well known as being sadistic and ignorant towards the Allied POWs. The discipline