World War II: District Performance Event

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.

The Japanese internment camps differed from the Jewish concentration camps. The Japanese internment camps were simply a holding place. The camps were not designed for the torture of the Japanese

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.

First, Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing because the Jews were not being treated like people, while the Japanese resumed a normal life. First, in Anne Frank's diary it says, “The people get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink”(Anne Frank's diary, October 9th,1942) . In the Nazi concentration camps they weren’t even given the luxury of food. It was watered down porridge, which gave them absolutely no nutritional value. To make matters worse, water was only available 1 hour a day. Many people would go days without food and water. Killing the weak and the sick. Next, while in the Japanese internment camps they had plenty of food and water. They had healthy food

In conclusion, concentration camps and Internment camps are very different to each other when you compare the two. The reasons behind why the people were put into camps were different, the death statistics and the conditions that the camps

Some people claim that the Internment camps were worse than Nazi camps but in reality, they were a bit alike but nothing really similar to them. Some of the hardships were bad food and very small living spaces but they were in there for national security, not for extermination. Over two-hundred voluntarily moved in.(Pipes) Families dined together at communal mess halls.(USHistory.org) Some of the internees had the option of serving in the army. One of the strongest units was the 442nd regiment, an all Japanese unit in Europe. So camps never reached the levels of Nazi camps.(USHistory.org)

Another thing that was bad about the internment camp is that there was a lot of racism going on between the Americans and the Japanese. The anti-racism has been going in the United States since the 19th century. There were tensions between the Asian immigrant workers and the whites because they were force to compete for jobs and land. The United States Congress decided to discourage the Japanese immigrants and to prohibit the naturalization of Japanese immigrants. “The state of California banned the marriages between the whites and the people of Asian descent” (KIM). This is also racism also because the Japanese were the only race that was send to the camps. There were signs on street and billboard on stores

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.

In internment camps the Japanese had low quality food that were a mixture of Japanese and American food. In concentration camps the food was horrible “you must have your mess-tin in hand, no mess-tin, no food, approximately 10 ounces of bread and some coffee” (Châtel). The life in the internment camps were better than those in the concentration camps, the Japanese that were put in the internment camp were kept as prisoner but were eventually freed and receive an apology from the US government. The people in the concentration camps were not usually kept as prisoner but as slaves and test subjects, they were killed and used as lab rats for the Nazi’s experiments. Both camps did have their population behind fences however the children in the internment camps had more freedom than those in the concentration camps. The children in internment camps play sports to help

World War II was a war that the United States tried hard to stay out of, acting as the democratic nation they sought to be. But after the U.S. started fighting, and as the war escalated, the nation started using a not-so-democratic tactic that ultimately put down and targeted one specific group of people. The tactic of nationwide internment based on a certain ethnicity or race has never been used again since. Although it can be argued that Japanese Internment was necessary in the U.S. because it was a case of national security, the real truth to the matter is that it was an act of racial prejudice.

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.

Yes, the Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were addressing the same issue because each were discriminated for their race/religion, put into camps after being loyal citizens and all rights were abolished. Even though the camps were different but they all had a lot of similarities as well. There is more information deeper explored than what seems most people knew about either

The purpose of the concentration camps were different. The Nazis put the Jews in concentration camps out of hatred. The Nazis hated the Jews because they were receiving most of the money. The Nazis hated the Jews so put them in camps and tortured and killed them out of hatred. The Americans put the Japanese in concentration camps out of fear. The Americans thought that any American with Japanese origin was spying for the Japanese. They removed every Japanese American from the coast of California (since it's closest to Japan) and put them in camps. The Jews were

To begin with, During world war II, Americans didn't put Germans or italians in internment camps, in the article JAPANESE-AMERICANS WAS AN UNNECESSARY AND RACIST ACT , paragraph 2 it states “ No such measure was taken against german or italian nationals”. I think that it wasn't fair to the Japanese-Americans because when the “German Americans” were going into war with germany, america didn't stop them even though that they’re were spies with germany in america and their