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Similarities Between Japanese Internment Camps And The Holocaust In The Night

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In december 1941 rumors spread about sending the Japanese to internment camps which means leaving their homes and being separated from their families This is very important to me because they could have handled this a better way , sixty two percent of the internees were united states citizens ! The Japanese internment camps was a forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 11,000 and 120,000 people of japanese ancestry who lived in the pacific coast . Ten internment camps were established in California , Utah , Arizona , Colorado , Arkansas and Wyoming . “ President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 authorizing the war relocation authority to force 110,000 Japanese and their american-born children into relocation …show more content…

To each surviving internees they were awarded $20,000 ! One similarity between the Japanese internment camps and the holocaust in the Night is that they were separated from their family and taken away from home . A difference between them is that I personally think the holocaust was much worst the internment camps because the Jews were sent to gas chambers and they couldn't have children because they would have been killed also women and men had to shave their hair off and work day and night nonstop even if they were sick , last but not least they also had soup to eat and a piece of bread if they were lucky ! Much more people survived in the internment camps then the holocaust as well . In the book Night the quote said “ we cannot give up , we cannot give up she kept repeating” ( Wiesel 20 ) . This reminds me of how the Japanese and the Jews did not give up no matter how hard the situation got and how hard it was to separate from their family but they did they best to survive each day , another difference is the Jews almost starved to death not getting the proper food they need also the children a school to learn because they all the “ toddlers” got put to …show more content…

This was a horrible idea even though this was an after effect on WWII . But I would rather been in the Japanese internment camps instead of the holocaust I think anyone would in my opinion . Lets not forget that Pearl Harbor started this and led to the war , yes the WWII was good for the Jews but pointless for the Japanese because they shouldve never moved them in the first place . Even though they said It would be a good benefit to keep “ America safe” it was horrible and that would've made the Japanese citizens even frustrated and make them rebel against us . The Japanese citizens had no idea where they were going to be evacuated at , Especially for the Japanese - Americans serving in the U.S military this was very agonizing for them . The camps had barbwire all round the area it seemed like there was no hope for them at all ! The evacuation was the law they only thing that could take to the camps were was the stuff they would be able to carry , the lucky ones got two weeks other two days . Just think about it they were civilized people just like us not savages remember that ! All they had left were suitcases and bags really they didn't know what the intention of the government toward them , they didn't know what the future held these were temporary shelters the conditions were extremely rough ; many camps weren't

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The Nazi Concentration camp was made to kill the Jews or make them work until they can no longer usually it was both they would work you until you couldn 't work anymore then they would kill you. Although people would say they were the same because the people in the camps were still taken from their homes forcefully, and they were both treated like dirt but people in Japanese Internment camps were never going to the camp to die, unlike the Nazi camps, we only did that so that we could move them away from some of the crucial resource areas. The Japanese-Americans we settled very close to some very important resource facilities crucial for the war and didn 't want to risk an attack. Japanese Internment camps and Nazi Concentration camps are two very different things.

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Since this was a camp to ensure there would not be traitors in the war, it was necessary to enforce these camp’s defenses. However, there was an exception for the Japanese-Americans to get out of the Camps and it was by volunteering for the war. “There were about 1500 from the mainland — most from behind barbed wire in American Concentration Camps — while… nearly 100,000 volunteers from Hawaii [entered the war],” (Odo). Japanese Americans volunteered for the war, not forced to join, because these camps held no intention of harming these Japanese-Americans in the first place. So in this case, those handful of Japanese Americans voluntarily let themselves involved in warfare, knowing they may die in even harsher environments unlike living in the camps.

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This order would protect them from people who might act out of anger towards the Japanese. Although this did not justify the reasoning behind the order for many people, it can be seen that there was a reasonable explanation behind it. The United States government did not create this order simply to be hostile towards Japanese-Americans. They did it with the rest of the country in mind. In this situation the benefits of internment camps outweighed the possible negative

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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced relocation of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. Over 120,000 people were uprooted from their lives and placed in internment camps, where they faced harsh living conditions and limited freedoms. The internment was based on the belief that Japanese Americans were a threat to national security, even though the majority were U.S. citizens and had no ties to Japan. The internment showed the dangers of scapegoating and stereotyping, as a whole group of people were punished based on the actions of a

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When put into the Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese-Americans were held at gunpoint and forced to leave their homes. After they were released from the camps, Japanese-Americans didn’t have a home to go back to. Not to mention the fact that the Nazi Concentration Camps left survivors mentally damaged and some mentally and physically disabled while the Japanese Internment Camps left survivors in a stable condition. In the Nazi Concentration Camps, prisoners were used as test subjects and those who did survive were left mentally or physically disabled. Even then,

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The relocation was ordered by the President of the US which was in this time FDR also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt and by an act of congress. the Japanese- American also known as Nisei (which is children born to the Issei, they were automatically U.S citizens)and the Japanese Aliens who were called Issei ( People born in Japan who moved to the U.S and settled there ) were moved to the interments camps. Also discrimination played a major role in the internment camps , economies and jealousy did also many people from California were jealousy of the economic suches that the Japanese- American farms and store owners enjoyed. Japanese Americans during the relocation era were accused of Pearl Harbor, only because they are Japanese they don’t even question or ask them why are they related with the event on Pearl Harbor. Just because they were Japanese they posed a threat to the American society and many of the Japanese were already American citizens and this event of the Internment camps was incredible because the US is founded on personal rights and

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Elie Wiesel once said, “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, by the silence of the bystander”. This quote means that being put through something so horrific as the holocaust concentration camps was not the worst part of the holocaust, but rather that people knew what was going on but never took action to stop this tragic event. The injustice of the people, mostly Jews, who had to go through the process of leaving everything behind and starting a new life where they were forced to work together in very unstable conditions is something that can never be payed back. This injustice lead to more than just the time and lives that we can't get back, it lead to dehumanization of innocent woman, children, men, elders, and

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One major difference between these two was the living conditions at the camps. Nazi camps are known as death camps where the conditions in the camp were specifically designed to finish off the Jewish people, whereas, in Japanese internment camps, the severity of the conditions was less severe and more liveable. For example, according to Japanese Interment Camps by Amanda Onion, Missy Sullivan, and Matt Mullen “Each Relocation Center was its own “town”, and included schools, post offices, and work facilities, as well as farmland for growing food and keeping livestock… Each “town” was completely surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers.” What this example is saying is that Japanese internment camps allowed the Japanese people to live a somewhat normal life even allowing them to work to get paid low salaries but were still imprisoned and forced to stay in the camps. This shows that the Japanese camps had actual livable conditions with features you would see outside of the camps.

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Just like the jews during the Holocaust they were displaced from their homes so then they could be placed in ghettos, concentration camps, gas chambers, etc.. For example in the article Introduction to the Holocaust by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum it states “The Germans and their collaborations created ghettos, transit camps, and forced labor camps in order to keep Jews grouped closely together during the war years.”. For the Japanese people that wasn’t really the case. They never got put in a gas chamber but in similar situations as ghettos and concentration camps. In the article it states “President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued the Executive Order 9066, which had the effect of relocating all persons of Japanese ancestry, both citizens and aliens, inland, outside of the Pacific military zones” (National Archives,p. 1). The president of the United States chose to make a legal order to be able to take further action leading to the displacement of Japanese people from their homes.

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The purpose behind both of the camps are different. First, American’s put Japanese in Internment camps because they were scared. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, so at the time Americans thought every Japanese was loyal to their emperor. America thought the Japanese were planning another attack.

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