Compare And Contrast Two German Internment Camps

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In Germany, concentration camps were created to exterminate the Jews. In the US, internment camps were made to keep the Japanese-Americans from spying on the US. Both countries did have containment camps, but the camps themselves differ greatly. First, the people imprisoned and the reason they were imprisoned are very different. The Germans captured the Jews because they felt that Jewish people were tainting the German bloodline. The concentration camps were created to kill the Jews. The US imprisoned the Japanese-Americans because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The US was afraid of Japanese spies, so they put Japanese-Americans in camps to keep the country safe. There was never an intent to kill them. Second, these camps were built on opposite