Similarities Between Jewish Concentration Camps And Japanese Internment Camps

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Jewish concentration camps and Japanese internment camps, two different places, same concept. In Jewish concentration camps, 6 million people had died and the rest were imprisoned. Before Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps, they had to leave their businesses, houses, boats and many other personal belongings for assembly centers. In both camps, cruel and unnecessary punishments. Japanese internment camps were essentially the same thing as Jewish concentration camps because both the Jewish and Japanese-American were evacuated and relocated, had their citizenship denied and the camps they were placed in had very harsh conditions. According to Anne Frank’s Journal entry on February 3rd, Frank states that “ It’s utterly impossible …show more content…

Chinese-Americans were also not granted U.S. citizenship because they looked of Japanese descent. During WWII America and Japan were not on the best of terms, because of this all Japanese-Americans were considered the enemy. Since the Chinese-Americans looked like the Japanese-Americans, the Chinese-Americans were not granted U.S. citizenship. If a Japanese-American was born in America and had no ties to Japan, they still were not guaranteed citizenship if ¾ of their grandparents came directly from Japan. In Germany, Jews were not allowed to be citizens either. This was because Adolf Hitler had persuaded most of the German population to dislike the Jewish and Hitler had blamed the Jews for Germany’s economic problems. Overall, Japanese-Americans and Jews were not considered citizens in World War II in either the U.S. or …show more content…

In Jewish Concentration camps, 11 million people had died. In Japanese Internment camps, it was rounded to around 120,000 people had died. The number of deaths is different, but they were all people and their lives had mattered. At any rate, in both camps these deaths were caused by murders, whether it was the contaminated food that was provided or sickness by lack of privacy, the death rate was similar in both camps. President Roosevelt had created the Japanese Internment camps because after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt had seen the Japanese as a threat. According to Roosevelt, “ ……………………………………………….” While Adolf Hitler had created the Jewish Concentration camps to not interfere with the war and mainly because Hitler just did not like the Jewish religion. In counter to that, both camps had intended for either Jews or Japanese-Americans to be out of the way of war. President Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler had created the camps for the same reason; to have the Jews and Japanese-Americans to not interfere with the war. It can be said that Japanese Internment camps and Jewish Concentration camps are not the same thing, but mostly anything said in agreeance to that can be