Internment camps were common in many countries during World War 2, including America. The Japanese-Americans were interned out of fear from Pearl Harbor and, although the conditions weren’t terrible, the aftermath was hard to overcome. Along with the Japanese-Americans, our American soldiers were also interned in Japan, but in harsher conditions and aftermaths. The camps, no matter how unpleasant, were turning points for both internees. While reading Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, these points are obvious.
The Internment Camps were simply war camps to protect the United States from any terror attacks. The internment Camps affected the United States by putting Japanese-American citizens in camps and showing a very dark side of the United States. It all started with the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7th, 1941. You could say the United States was beyond furious with the actions of Japan. Which clearly set off the government.
March of 1933 something happened that would change the lives of millions forever. In ¨Dachau¨ the first concentration camp was opened (¨United States Holocaust Memorial Museum¨). This would be the first of thousands more to come, all with the intention of either forced labor or mass murder, often both (¨The Holocaust¨). Many events led to this crisis and they all included the persecution of the Jewish people.
February 19, 1942. About two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the legal internment of Americans with Japanese ancestry living on the west coast. FDR and the U.S. Army claimed it was out of military necessity and to defend California, Oregon, and Washington from another Japanese attack. There were no exceptions. Lawyers, doctors, business people, and even wounded Japanese American war veterans were sent to internment camps (Marrin 97-98).
Many people consider World War II a successful and beneficial war to the Unites States of America. They say that the jobs that it created pulled the country out of the depression, and that people working towards the war effort brought the nation closer together. I do not agree with this idea of World War II being a “Good war”. I believe that instead it resulted in the mistreatment and abuse of the country 's own citizens, and poor communication resulting in unnecessary panic among american citizens. The effects of World War II on the American homefront involved mistreatment of Japanese-American citizens, as well as splitting up families across the nation and creating a rise in panic and chaos in American cities.
Persecution or hatred? Treated like animals or people? The Americans forced all Japanese-Americans to go to internment camps during World War I. And the Germans forced all Jewish people to go to concentration camps in World War II. Both very different camps. The concentration and internment camps aren’t the same thing because of how they got treated, the purpose of the camps, and the number of deaths.
This meant I had no choice but to be thrown into an internment camp. I wasn't allowed to finish my education or do anything with my personal belongings. I took what I could carry in my arms, nothing else. I was ripped out of my life and put into a camp with all the other Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Families held each other close, and many who weren’t lucky enough to be placed together mourned the separation of their families.
In my personal opinion, I do believe a forced internment could occur again. Hypothetically speaking, if the candidate Donald Trump would become the next president of 2017-2021their would be a possibility. Within his campaigned he has mentioned that he would consider requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a government database, or worse, mandating that they carry special identification cards that note their faith according to CNN.com. Similar to the Nazi Laws of 1938-1942, that required all Jews to wear a gold star of David on their clothes. On December 6 of 2015 president, Obama did declare a war against a terrorist group called Isis.
It's been decades since i was at the camp, but i still feel the effect to this day. I am Japanese American girl who is fed up with bad treatment because of the world war 2 and i am finally getting chance to take action. I received a call at work for me to testify on behalf the Japanese American internees. I'm living in Manhattan N.Y. And i received a call for the testimony and so now i'm preparing for it.
Prisoner of war camps were common during World War II. However, the book Unbroken displays the true horrors that were in the Japanese prisoner of war camps. This book captures the life of Louis Zamperini and tells the horrendous conditions that he and other prisoners faced during their time in the prisons. The Japanese internment camps did not fulfill the purpose of the camp, the treatment of the prisoners that they deserved; also the prisoners were given meaningless jobs to fulfill.
A common argument against the opinion that the Japanese American internment was clearly violating the Habeas Corpus, the 4th Amendment and the 14th Amendment is that the President himself issued an order to prevent a person who seems to be a threat to the country from leaving a military area. The President, who wholeheartedly makes decisions with only the welfare of the entirety of the United States of America and it’s citizens. That may be true but it was not necessary to hold these innocent patriotic citizens for almost a full year. There was no evidence pertaining against them nor was their any trail that determined any of the thousand of Japanese Americans to be guilty. The President does specify at the beginning of his order that during
The Japanese And Prisoners Of War In World War II: With Louis Zamperini’s Story When most people think of World War II, most people think of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. What a lot of people forget is the Japanese role in the war. They were brutal, almost as brutal as the Nazis. The guards were ruthless and the conditions of the camps were disgusting.
World War II had lots of hard work to be done, and most of it was taken out on Jewish and Japanese people. The Japanese were put into internment camps, and the Jewish people in concentration camps. Not only was it the Jewish people, but people with mental illnesses, disabilities, and people who were homosexual. Anyone who was different was put into concentration camps. Even though they are similar, concentration and internment camps aren’t the same because one was out of fear, the other hatred, ‘actions’ versus ‘reactions’, and the Japanese had opportunities, while the Jewish didn’t.
POW is short for Prisoners of War. It has been involved for both sides of the war, which are the Allied Power and Central Power. It has said that POW Camps are similar to an internment camp, but was used for civilians. POW Camps were mostly used for soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guards, and airmen, which were more recent than others, of an enemy power that were captured by their enemy after having a armed conflict with each other. Sometimes the camps aren’t that bad, but yet there were still some camps that weren’t that good.
Have you ever wondered Why were the Concentration camps established? who went to there, what kind of things happen to them while there? And how many people died? What happen to the survivors? Let’s find out what really happen in the Concentration Camps.
