Compare And Contrast Japanese And German Internment Camps
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Historical Comparison/Contrast
During the Second World War, the Nazis and the United States government viewed a portion of their population who were considered as “enemy ancestry” to be potentially dangerous. Therefore, both governments utilized various constitutionally questionable ways to control immigrants. Such methods included internment exchanges, group and individual seclusion, travel restrictions, and also deportation as well as property confiscation. In the United States, the human cost of the civil rights violations was very high. For example, families were disrupted, destroyed, and homes and properties were lost. In Germany, internment camps started after Hitler became the Chancellor of the country. Unlike the American internment camps where people considered to be potential danger were imprisoned without trial, the German camps were extermination, punishment, and forced labor sites (Texas Commission).
The living conditions in the German internment camps was harsh compared to the internment camps in America. In Germany, American immigrants were subjected to hard…show more content… In the American internment camps “dangerous” people were imprisoned without trial; in German camps prisoners were exterminated, punished, or forced into labor. Also, the living conditions in the German American camps were not as savage as those in the Nazis camps. The United States populated their camps with the Italians, the Japanese, and German immigrants. In contrast, the Nazis targeted people that were thought to be enemies of the government or anyone that threatened the established government. Prisoners could include German citizens themselves, but mainly were Jews, physically challenged, and individuals considered to be unfit for the society. In similarity, the survivors of the camps suffered what is referred to as the internment camp