During World war 2 the jewish people were not the only ones kept in camps. Soon after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed the executive order 9066. Which had forced the Japanese Americans to relocate regardless of their citizenships or whether they were born in the U.S. In world war 2 the Japanese americans were sent to concentration camps. In the course in the concentration camps they were treated as if they were prisoners without any freedom and respect. The Japanese Americans were civil people who had gotten sent into those camps without any reason. The force of the relocation and the internment of Japanese americans had changed many of their life's experiences dealing with dehumanization taking away their freedom …show more content…
For instance, Document 3 indicates “I can now understand how an eagle feels when his wings are clipped and caged. Beyond the bars of his prison lies the wide expanse of clouds, the wide, wide, fields of brush and woods--limitless space for the pursuit of Life itself”. During their imprisonment in the camps they felt as if they had no freedom, or a sense of home.comfortability was a challenge for many Japanese americans because their living conditions were inadequate especially since it was cramped, it had poor maintenance and other types of abuse. The Japanese Americans were kept in inhumane conditions in the imprisonment of the concentration camps In document 4 it also provides , “Many people had to live in the horse stables. These were places where the racehorses were kept. So you can imagine what it smelled like...there’s still the smell of horse manure…” the camps weren't even made for people at first it was made for horses. Therefore, they were dehumanized because they were forced to live like …show more content…
A Japanese American had written a letter to one of their friends explaining , document 3 states “These among other things I remember of that Christmas 1941. Then another memory runs through my aching head...a low voice -- “You damn Jap-you! By gosh,the government should put every damn one of you in concentration camps”----I remember the cold shiver that ran up my spine…” the racism happened before they were sent to the concentration camp during all of the racism they have trauma and terrible memories of what they went through. Someone had written a letter to the congress saying to eliminate the Japanese american, in Document 5 “The Japanese cannot be assimilated as the white race. We must do everything we can to stop them now as we have a golden opportunity and may never have it again.” They want to take out and kill all the Japanese americans because they had an opportunity when they were sent to the camps so the white race could take over. Document 6 shows a white man pointing at a sign that has derogatory words towards the Japanese Americans saying that they are never allowed back to their business. The government had contributed to saying that the Japanese Americans were the enemies that led people like this person to believe that racism was
The book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet described the exhilarating and, at times, gloomy first love between a Chinese boy named Henry Lee and a Japanese girl named Keiko Okabe, which took place in Seattle, Washington in the beginning of World War ll. Overall, it's the story of the massive deportation of the Japanese people, even those that were second-generation Americans, by the United States government. I wanted to have a deeper understanding of what was happening in the book so I began researching and found some interesting facts. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, there was danger and rage towards Japanese Americans. Franklin Roosevelt’s order 9066, on February 19, 1942, allowed the Secretary of War
The contradiction lies between by what the media the government stated about the camps, and the cruelty of the Japanese internees. Also these camps were known as relocation centers for the “evacuated Japanese Americans” in order for the government
For over 80 years Asian immigrants have already reviewed as an “economic threat.” America created laws that socially banned them from the country, laws that were created to segregate Japanese Americans from Americans. The evacuees that were forced into the camps were mostly American citizens most have never even been to Japan, Japanese American who were farmers and business owners and mostly all were innocent but all were stripped of their civil rights and human dignity. The reason for the high populated campsite was because they racial profiled anyone that looked Japanese like this quote states, “Color seems to be the only possible reason why thousand of an American citizen of Japanese ancestry are in concentration camps.” This shows how little they cared about the race it didn’t matter who and how you are if you looked like a possible enemy you were treated like
In the beginning of WWII there were 9 million jews, by the end of WWII there were 3 million, killing 6 million jews altogether. Hitler was a ruthless, evil man who inflicted pain and suffering on people who were not like him. The japanese had it good compared to the jews, even though they were removed from their homes, detained in special camps, and eventually relocated. The jews were tortured. Japanese internment camps are essentially not the same as jewish concentration camps because the jewish concentration camps were much more harsh than the japanese internment camps, 6 million jews died from being tortured at the camps, and the jews feared going to the camps.
Document F gives you a visual of the Japanese americans working on farms in order to get their money and the picture below it shows a family in one of the cabins and by the looks of it the living conditions aren't that good there's one small bed with a small bulb on the ceiling with a couple chair and a kettle to get hot water. Which isn't a very good living space for a whole family. This document proved that the Japanese were in fact not treated well because that wasn't a proper living space expectantly not for a whole family. Document G also proves that the Japanese suffered because document G is a first person point of view from a woman named Rosie Maruki Kakuuchi and she said “We were treated like enemies” and this was all because Tokyo attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. And from that day they were not trusted and were treated like they were attacking America just because of their Japanese.
“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives”-Ronald Reagan. During WWII, both the Nazi party and the Americans used Internment/Concentration Camps. These camps were used to hold people that look like or was thought to be the enemy and forced them to work. The Americans had Japanese-Americans in their camps while the Nazi party had Jews and people who didn’t support Hitler. The Nazi concentration camps and the Japanese internment camps are not the same because of the condition/lifestyle of the camps, reason for making camps and individual rights in the camps.
The cause for the encampments was rooted in the hatred the American society had towards the Japanese. Discriminating and Judging
“Although the Japanese-Americans staying in these camps tried their best to maintain the semblance of a normal life... family life suffered a blow,” Jane McGrath writes. The article “Did the United States Put Its Own Citizens in Concentration Camps During WWII?” informs it’s audience about the internment camps the United States build and gives us facts about why and how bad they
Even before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Japanese Americans were discriminated against because of their race. During World War ll, the United States was also at war with Germany and Italy, but German and Italian Americans were not experiencing the same unfair treatment that Japanese Americans endured. This was because of their race. For example, in an editorial in The Crisis periodical, Harry Paxton Howard wrote in September of 1942, “Color seems to be the only possible reason why thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry are in concentration camps. Anyway, there are no Italian-American, or German-American citizens in such camps” (Document E).
Placing these individuals into camps for punishment was not fair to them. It was also just the Japanese Americans that were placed into camps, not any other races. “There were also some Americans who answered, “no-no” out of anger, as a protest against the violation of their civil rights by their government.” (Loyalty). Some Japanese Americans answered no to prove a point.
The internment of the Japanese during WWII was a direct effect of racism towards Japanese people. The Japanese had been facing discrimination from the time that they began immigrating into the United States being accused of stealing jobs and land. However, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and relocation of Japanese Americans allowed for the racism to show. During 1942, Japanese people along the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington were uprooted from their homes, farms, and jobs to be placed in internment camps in the Midwest, away from the Pacific Ocean. The location of the internment camps the Japanese were placed in was an environmental decision, choosing deserts far away from any cities and sign of life.
The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was not justified. After Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared of the Japanese Americans because they could sabotage the U.S. military. To try and solve the fear President Franklin D Roosevelt told the army in Executive order 9066 to relocate all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They were relocated to detention centers in the desert. Many of them were in the detention centers for three years.
How would you feel if one day you were told to leave your whole life behind to live in captivity just because people halfway across the world did something wrong? This horror story was all too true for the thousands of Japanese Americans alive during World War II. Almost overnight, thousands of proud Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced to leave their homes and give up the life they knew. The United States government was not justified in the creation of Japanese internment camps because it stripped law-abiding American citizens of their rights out of unjustified fear.
As the Commission said in their Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, “The broad historical causes which shaped these decisions were race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership. Widespread ignorance of Japanese Americans contributed to a policy conceived in haste and executed in an atmosphere of fear and anger at Japan.” The real reason the government put Japanese Americans in internment camps was because of their race, and they were just mad at Japan.
World War II had lots of hard work to be done, and most of it was taken out on Jewish and Japanese people. The Japanese were put into internment camps, and the Jewish people in concentration camps. Not only was it the Jewish people, but people with mental illnesses, disabilities, and people who were homosexual. Anyone who was different was put into concentration camps. Even though they are similar, concentration and internment camps aren’t the same because one was out of fear, the other hatred, ‘actions’ versus ‘reactions’, and the Japanese had opportunities, while the Jewish didn’t.