Profiling In Ww2

A large part of WWII is the large amounts of racial profiling that occurred. It not only happened in Europe with the Germans being the force behind the racial profiling of not only the Jews but also Gypsies, and African-German children. Other groups that were targeted by Germans were handicapped individuals, mentally ill people, some of the elderly, and people born deaf and blind. Though many would like to forget, a lot of racial profiling also went on in the United States. The target being Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor they were a major target, though no espionage was found, there was still much suffering on the Japanese-Americans part. WWII had many battles but the largest and hardest fought battle was the fight against racial

In the United States, after Pearl Harbor was bombed President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. This Executive Order deprived these Japanese-American citizens of their legal rights, permitting their indefinite imprisonment without the due process ( “Racial Profiling and the Japanese American Internment”, 2012). Japanese-Americans were specifically persecuted because the US government was worried about espionage though none was ever proved with evidence (in-text citation). The US decided that EO 9066 is constitutional because of the war time necessity. Most Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned were from the west coast because many thought that the threat of espionage was the greatest there (“Racial Profiling and the Japanese American Internment”, 2012). There were even Japanese-American WWI veterans who were forced out of their homes, as if their great service and commitment to their country had been forgotten. Though the internment camps were never nearly as barbaric as the death camps in Europe, they will forever be a regrettable mark on US

Though the scrutiny is over for them, it is not forgotten. They may have been thousands of miles away from each other, but they suffered through similar things. No one can compensate for the horrors both groups suffered through. Though in 1988 the United States tried to apologize by giving each surviving intern $20,000 (“Japanese-American Internment”, 2014). Though those who suffered in Europe did not receive anything for the traumatic horrors that they survived. They were however able to walk away with a sense of empowerment, they had been persecuted and most likely faced death on multiple occasions yet survived. Both groups of people dealt with prejudices that had no basis. Though they were treated terribly it seems most survivors have learned to move on and find