What is the difference between Japanese internment camps and nazi concentration camps?

Answer 1

Japanese Internment Camps were in the United States. They housed the Japanese Americans in these camps to search for spies and keep them from turning into spies. These camps were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. So they were held illegally. The camp conditions were miserable. They had inadequate housing, bathrooms, food, and many did get sick from the camps. There were not killed or beaten or shot as the people were in the German Concentration camps. Some of the Japanese sons joined the war to prove their allegiance to the United States. The Japanese lost their homes, businesses and possessions. Some Japanese farmers had nice neighbors who kept their farms grow and producing and kept their houses safe but this was the exception not the rule. Many Americans back then were prejudiced against the Japanese, Chinese and other Asians. Truly sad.

The German Concentration camps were filled with Jewish people slated to be killed or used for free hard labor. They were also filled with the "undesirables" the Nazis wanted out of the population. They were communists, political prisoners, religious people, dwarfs, Downs Syndrome people, feeble minded, people with congenital defects, the mentally ill and anyone else they felt like putting into the camps. There were POW camps too. In the camps the conditions were not merely miserable they were deplorable. They were filthy, disease ridden, and the buildings had no heat or beds. The prisoners were put into pajamas. They did not all have coats or shoes. The camps were designed to kill and cremate the people. Some camps had gas chambers to kill thousands of Jews daily. The people died from disease, exposure, dehydration, starvation, dysentery and murder by the Nazis. One of the most horrible things that happened to the prisoners was the medical experiments conducted on them. I couldn't write what happened to them. This entire project of eliminating people Hitler did not approve of was called The Final Solution. His goal was to have the population be only of pure Aryan descent. Incidentally, there is no medical word/fact or sociological human grouping of "Aryans". It was a word Hilter borrowed from some books he read.

Answer 2

AnswerThe internment of Japanese Americans was considered a security measure in that there was concern that some of them might be subversives secretly working for Japan's interest. This was primarily a west coast phenomenon. They were put in internment camps, I think they were mostly in California, and segregated from the public for a period during WWII. Many, perhaps most, were actually American citizens, some American born. In most cases they lost their homes, jobs, other assets. No doubt some were mistreated in the camps but in no way was the purpose even remotely similar to the Holocaust. The Germans, in their efforts at ethnic cleansing, rounded up Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and other groups they considered inferior and imprisoned them. Millions were killed either in the gas chamber, by disease, exposure to harsh weather, starvation, or as the result of cruel so-called medical experiments. It should be noted that in recent years, the US has made reparation payments to those Japanese Americans who were put in the camps.

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The intention of the Holocaust was genocide.

Answer 3

The Japanese may not have been directly "tortured," but like the Jewish people, they were taken out of their homes and sent somewhere to be stripped of dignity and freedom. I believe that that alone is enough to be called torture. There were terrible conditions in all camps, holocaust or internment, that promoted spread of diseases, and people died of starvation. There were wrong motives for both internment and the holocaust; racism was a part in both causes. Both the Japanese AMERICANS and the Holocaust victims were treated like DIRT, and no human should ever be treated like they were! I apologize if I offended anyone or seem biased, but this is based on research.

Answer 4

Conditions in some of the American internment camps were certainly harsh, and some guards were petty-minded. However, the intention of the extermination camps and the forced labour camps was to kill the Jews, not to intern them. That is a very big difference.

Answer 5

there is no comparison.

Actually, there is... They both took one race and imprisoned them without cause

Answer 6

Holocaust was to kill

Internment was to protect the japanese from angry americans, and prevent japan from spying on us