WWII Concentration Camps

Diseases such as scabies, typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and tuberculosis were the main diseases. Many people had to wait in hour long lines, even in bad weather, to even see a doctor About six million to eight million people died during the Holocaust, because of these diseases and other events. Sanitation was another condition during the Holocaust. The concentration camps were nasty, disgusting, and dirty. Most toilets at the camps were overflowing on the floor, because of all of the people trying only to use about eight toilets on average per concentration

The camps that the Japanese-Americans were taken to had the worse conditions imaginable. “More than 120,000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry were incarcerated in 10 camps scattered throughout the Western United States during World War II” (Children of the Camps Project 1). Detainees spent many years in these camps. They were locked behind barbed wire fences, and armed guards patrolled the camps. The conditions were comparable to the Jewish camps in Eastern Europe. Entire families lived in quarters that were poorly constructed and horribly cramped. These areas were also unbearably cramped and unclean. There was also no hot water for dishes or showers in the living quarters. In addition, lice was a huge problem in the internment camps. These camps and the laws that our government passed against the Japanese community were atrocious. The United States experienced a terrible tragedy when Pearl Harbor was attacked. However, the American government had no right to make these innocent Americans prisoners of war. During the 1940s and 1950s the Japanese

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.

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.

“ 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 .

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.

The Second World War was an international event which drastically impacted the world as a whole. With the war came a new found sense of mistrust throughout society. American and Canadian communities were divided due to the fear of espionage and sabotage, forms of spying which could help aid the enemy in war. This division promoted distrust, discrimination and violence toward Japanese immigrants and their children. To offset these fears resulting from war, Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadian citizens were forced into internment camps, resulting in a heightened sense of tension upon arrival home and finally the compensations of both US and Canadian governments

Additionally, concentration camps in Germany were also similar to the internment camps that we put the japanese into. The people in the internment camps felt as if they were “trapped like rats in a wired cage” (Doc D) Many people in the Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany had felt the same way. None of the people in these camps had committed a crime, yet they were treated as if they did. The Japanese in the Internment Camps knew that putting them in a segregated location was only for our nation's defense. For the Japanese minority group, the war did not bring positive changes. Not only was there negative political changes, there was also negative and positive economic changes.

When the Nazi’s arrested Jews and sent them to concentration camps, the conditions were terrible. The men, women, and children in the camps were not treated with the rights they deserved, since they were forced into harsh labor, placed in killing centers where gas chambers were used to effectively and quickly murder thousands of Jews a day, and experimented on to find new medicines and so the German scientists could find out how much pain and torture they could endure until death. In America, over 120,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated into camps during the period of World War II. Even though these Americans were not treated as harshly as the Jews in concentration camps, they lost

At the beginning of World War II there were nine million Jews, at the end there were three million. In the Jewish concentration camp’s, there were about six million Jews killed under Adolf Hitler’s commands. In the Japanese internment camp’s, there were about 127,000 people imprisoned. There was a total of 11,127,000 people imprisoned in the internment and the concentration camps combined. The Japanese camp’s and the Jewish concentration camp’s situation were the same because both cultures were excluded from their communities, both were forced to live in undesirable places, and they were both treated cruelly and unfairly.

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

How would the government feel if they were forced to go to internment camps from their home?

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.

Many people are unaware of the forced relocation of Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This is no wonder, as the U.S. is not proud of this dark moment. It is mentioned in schools as a footnote, often preferring to focus on the similar relocation of German Jews and other ‘undesirables.’ The internment of the Japanese people stemmed from fear and xenophobia that America still experiences today. Pearl Harbor instilled fear and animosity toward Japanese Americans in the rest of the population. Due to this fear, the president found it necessary to intern Japanese Americans in ‘concentration camps.’ Those in and out of the camps were treated poorly by the rest of society, living in fear. These camps not only impacted the lives

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.