The Pros And Cons Of Japanese American Internment Camps

An atrocity defines as a cruel and wicked act against humanity. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called out Executive Order 9066, otherwise known as the Japanese- American Internment Camps. These camps imprisoned Japanese-Americans soon after the time America entered World War II, fighting against the Japanese. All over the west coast of America, there was at least one camp for the Japanese Americans prepped. The Japanese American Internment Camps, however, can not be considered an atrocity because the imprisonment is justifiable, the Japanese Americans were kept safe from all warfare, as well as their daily lives kept almost undisrupted.
Japanese Americans were imprisoned in Internment camps, but they were held reasonably, which is why this event is not an atrocity. During wars it is common to hold

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. Even when America let the Japanese Americans fight, the rest of the camp and their lives were safe from warfare. Therefore Executive Order 9066 can not be called an atrocity for all of warfare was kept out of sight from the Internment Camps, even after letting Japanese Americans volunteer in the