Major Differences Between Concentration Camps and Internment Camps The differences between Farewell to Manzanar and Night are distinct, and these differences are entitled to in-depth scrutiny. Some differences between these two books include: the causes of holding the people in camps, the conditions of the camps, and what both of these camps resulted in. The differences between the causes of Night’s concentration camps and Farewell to Manzanar’s internment camps contrasted a lot. Some may say that the causes of Japanese-American internment camps and concentration camps were inevitable, but the causes were actually quite clear. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order that caused Japanese-Americans to be moved to …show more content…
In the concentration camps, the people living in those camps barely got any food and were worked to the bone. The place that these people lived in wasn’t much better, seeing as the prisoners of the camp slept two to three in a “bed” that wasn’t even actually a bed, and the prisoners were separated from their families. The people living in the concentration camps were kept there for many years, often dying of diseases, cremation, or being shot in the head by S.S. officers. In Manzanar’s internment camps, the conditions weren’t as bad as the concentration camp’s conditions, but the conditions weren’t as good as people who lived outside the internment camps. Although families were crammed into rooms or compartments in unfinished barracks, at least the families were still together. The heating wasn’t the best and there were things wrong with the fuel line, but the people who lived in Manzanar got to regularly eat a meal. The only similarity between the conditions of the two camps is that the prisoners of each camp weren’t allowed to leave. With the very different conditions of these two camps, there is bound to be a big difference in the