Compare/Contrast: Japanese Camps and German Camps
Many historical events have taken place during the second world war. Two things in particular have happened during that times period. These two things are Japanese camps and German camps. Many things have happened in these camps that are very regretful to some people and others do care less. These are important because there are many things that these two subjects have in common and a lot of them are things not to be proud of. In the both Japanese camps and German camps, we learned that life isn’t fair sometimes and these rough and tough moments can last a while. These things can change a person's life forever.
These two topics, or camps as I should say, have many different similarities that
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This section we are talking about the differences. The two camps had many similarities, but they had even more differences between them. A difference between these two camps is their population. I am not talking about the number of people in the camps, I am talking about the people themselves. In the German camps, Adolf Hitler despised the Jewish population and wanted to get rid of them, and these camps were born. The German camps were only made up of the Jewish culture. The Japanese camps were made up of different people such as Americans, Australians etc. According to Japanese Treatment of World War II Prisoners of War, “ …German camps were only made up of Jewish people, while Japanese camps were made up of different cultures and people. Another difference between the camps is the gender of the population. In the German camps, it was made up of both genders. Men had to do the labor and the women had to make clothing, sew, knit, etc. In the Japanese camps were only men because they were in the military and were captured by the camps for the labor and because of the hatred for their country. A weird difference for the German camps is that when the prisoners arrived to the camp, they received their new clothing and then had their head shaved bald. The Japanese kept their prisoners with hair because they wanted them to sweat and bleed from their labor …show more content…
One thing that the german camps had done was work the prisoners for 18 hours a day. A similarity between both of the camps is their guards. Both of the camps had guards blocking the door and watching all the prisoners and what they had to accomplish while they were there. The guards had weapons attached to them because of the amount of prisoners who tried to escape because they felt that they needed to leave for their families sake. The Japanese camps only made their prisoners work for 12 hours because they believed that they need some rest and energy for the next day’s work. A difference between the Japanese and German camps is that the Japanese camps had a certain punishment for the winter if the prisoners were not paying attention or not following orders. The Japanese sent the misbehaving prisoners outside in the cold and chain them up with them being nude. If the German guards seen prisoners misbehave, they would be killed without an explanation to their
During World War II American soldiers who were caught by the Japanese were sent to camps where they were kept under harsh conditions. These men were called the prisoners of war, also known as the POWs. The Japanese who were captured by the American lived a simple life. They were the Japanese internees of World War II. The POWs had more of a harsh time during World War II than the internees. While the internees did physically stay in the camps longer, the POWs had it worse mentally.
Each section had its own function and its type of prisoners. The “Detention camp housed Jewish prisoners brought in to construct the camp.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, p.165) “Special Camp housed Jews from Poland who held papers, passports, entrance visa, etc. issued by foreign countries” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, p.165) The “Neutral Camp was reserved for several hundred Jew who were citizens of neutral countries.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, p.165) The "Star Camp was reserved for about 4,000 Jewish prisoners who were to be exchanged for German nationals interned by the Allies” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, p.165)
At the camp, the Jews were not treated like human. They were force to do thing that was unhuman and that dehumanized
Kaiserwald, unlike Auschwitz, didn’t have gas chambers instead they forced the Jewish to work in German factories. Auschwitz had a huge death toll around 1.1 million Jewish deaths. Kaiserwald ranked lower with around 10 thousand Jewish deaths. (The Holocaust Chronicle). Kaiserwald had a total of 11,878 prisoners in the camp. These numbers are small compared to Auschwitz who had 150,000 prisoners at any given time. Kaiserwald was open for a year while Auschwitz was open for five.(History & Overview of Auschwitz).
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Each camp was responsible for a different part, but all were after the same thing: elimination of the Jewish race. In these camps they had cruel punishments, harsh housing, and they had Nazi guards watching them and killing them on a daily basis. While being forced to live in Auschwitz, they endured many cruel and harsh punishments. The main form of punishment is the gas chambers. These chambers were cells that were made underground and were able to be sealed.
What were the Japanese internment camps some might ask. The camps were caused by the attack of Pearl Harbor in 1942 by Japan. President Roosevelt signed a form to send all the Japanese into internment camps.(1) All the Japanese living along the coast were moved to other states like California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona. The camps were located away from Japan and isolated so if a spy tried to communicate, word wouldn't get out. The camps were unfair to the Japanese but the US were trying to be cautious. Many even more than 66% or 2/3 of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in April of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan. Their only crime was that they had Japanese ancestors and they were suspected of being spies to their homeland of Japan. Japanese-American World War I veterans that served for the United States were also sent to the internment camps.(2)
Several camps resisted through violent ways which is what greatly impacted the Germans and the concentration or death camps located there.
The concentration and internment camps were essentially the same thing because, they put a economic burden on them, second they were forced to do unreasonable task, and lastly they were both suppressed by the government. All in all the americans people in internment camps never lost their will to fight. But it was still very racist. and the holocaust killed 12 million non soldiers
How would you feel if you were forced out of your home to go to a camp where you shall be incarcerated for an unknown amount of time in an unknown location. You have no idea what will happen to you and your family. Why were you forced into the camps? Because of your ethnicity or beliefs. Japanese internment camps and Holocaust concentration camps both left their hateful marks in the fabric of history. During World War II, the Holocaust concentration camps were located around Central or Eastern Europe while the Japanese internment camps were located in the Western United States. Both types of camps have interesting similarities. However, one must realize that despite this similarities, these camps were very different in many ways. Yet, one thing is certain. We must learn more about this dark time in history in order to prevent such acts of hatred and paranoia from ever happening again.
The federal government ruled most of the reasons behind Japanese internment camps. Further than two-thirds of the Japanese who were sentenced to internment camps in the spring of 1942 were in fact United States citizens. The internment camps were the centerpiece for legal confines of minorities. Most camps were exceedingly overcrowded and with deprived living conditions. The conditions included “tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind.” Unfortunately, coal was very hard to come by for the internees, so most would only have the blankets that were rationed out to sleep on. As for food, the allotment was about 48 cents per internee. This food was served in a mess hall of about 250 people and by other internees. Leadership positions within the camp were only given to the American-born Japanese, or Nisei. Eventually, the government decided that...
In 1942 Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066 which forced all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. They were forced out no matter their loyalty or their citizenship. These Japanese-Americans were sent to Internment camps which were located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. There were ten camps all-together and 120,000 people filled them (2009). The immigrants were deprived of their traditional respect when their children who were American-born were indorsed authority positions within the camps. In 1945 Japanese-American citizens with undisrupted loyalty were allowed to return to the West Coast, but not until 1946 was the last camp closed.
The internment camps were permanent detention camps that held internees from March, 1942 until their closing in 1945 and 1946. Although the camps held captive people of many different origins, the majority of the prisoners were Japanese-Americans. There were ten different relocation centers located across the United States during the war. These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children, were incarcerated for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis, in bleak, remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.
A similarity is that both camps happened in WW2. The Nazi Germany camps before WW2 but they both had camps running during WW2. The U.S had a total of 10 camps while the Nazis had a total of 23 main camps and over 40,000 subcamps. They had this many camps because a majority of the German population were Jews. An irregularity of the camps is that the U.S only sent up to 120,000 Japanese Americans to the internment camps, while the concentration camps had 11 million deaths alone.
Many of the captured suffered and died of malnutrition and exhaustion. Although German and Japanese forces were allied during the Second World War the conditions in German P.O.W Camps greatly differed from conditions in Japanese P.O.W Camps. For example, in Europe those sent to P.O.W Camps were separated based on their ranking. Whereas in Asia less efforts were made to separate the captives in terms of ranking. One