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Were Japanese forced to live in internment camps?
Yes it is true. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, President FDR issued Executive Order 9066 which lead to the relocation of thousands of Japanese-Americans to internment camps. Though not as harsh as concentration camps set up by the Germans, people died and living conditions were rough.
Are Japanese internment camps always bad?
During World War II, virtually all Japanese internment camps were terrible places. A telling statistic is this: Of all American soldiers in German POW camps, the percentage that died was just slightly above the normal death rate expected for that time period. - between 1% and 1 1/2%.The death rate for Americans in Japanese POW camps was a staggering 35%.
Was there kids that was killed or died in internment camps?
Yes, children were killed in internment camps.
How many people died during the Japanese internment?
The situation called for 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to be put into camps spread throughout the United States. Also 7,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese from Latin America were rounded up and transported to the US to the camps. These camps were active from 1942 to 1944. In the Japanese internment camps, they let them live as close to a normal life as they could. They let them order products out of a Sears catalog, grow gardens, let them request the types of food they could eat, and other things to make them have the most "normal of a life" as possible while in containment. But, they were not allowed to leave, communicate with anyone outside the camp, or disobey the people who worked there. By the documents I read, I conclude that no Japanese died in the two years in the camps in the United States. If someone get a document contrary to what I say with the number, I welcome to show it to us.
How long were Japanese citizens held in internment camps in the US?
Most Japanese were in the camps for 3 years. Following Executive Order 9066 (February 19, 1942), the first Relocation Centers were staffed in March, 1942. Following the US Supreme Court ruling in January, 1945, most internees were released between April and November, 1945. Some were held for various reasons (including criminal offenses) into 1946, and the \"segregation\" camp at Tule Lake closed in March of that year.
How many Japanese were imprisoned in POW camps during World War 2?
About 110,000 were interned in 26 different camps while 33,000 served in the US Military. ------------------ There were around 120,000 Japanese Americans interned in 10 different camps around America.
What proportion of the of the population of japanese-americans died in us concentration camps?
Zero. There was no policy or desire to kill the Japanese-Americans. I'm sure there were some deaths due to natural causes, which it could be argued were attributable to camp conditions or to the stress of being uprooted, but it might just as easily be argued that those people would have died anyway if they were still at home. The camps for the Japanese-Americans were nothing like the camps the Japanese ran for prisoners of war or interned civilians who fell into their hands, in which tens of thousands died, and bore no resemblance to the German death camps. Calling them "concentration camps" became fashionable during the Vietnam era, by those with an anti-government bias, because it carries the sinister implication that they operated on the same plan as the German death camps. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
How many Japanese Americans died in internment camps during World War 2?
Over 200 People died. Its was a Very sad and horrid thing for America the Great to do! :( Lets NEVER do this again! According to documentary information on History Channel not many POW's taken by the Japanese came out alive and they were treated very badly. The Germans treated POW's better if they played by the rules. 2nd Answer: The question is, how many of those who died would have died, anyway, had they been left in their homes and hometowns? Certainly, a good number of them were sick to begin with, or were very old. In fact, the records of that time show that the Japanese, German, and Italian interns died at about the same rate as the rest of American people, and of the same things. The 82,000 Japanese interns that survived were paid $20,000 each for them or for their descendants to a total of $1.6 billion. Also, there was never an order to intern all Japanese Americans. The order was to keep them out of sensitive military areas, and areas where sabotage would be easy for them to accomplish. The Army interpreted the entire West coast as a sensitive area. Tens of thousands of Japanese Americans had to endure moving away from the sensitive areas. Those who refused were interned. Also, let's not forget the thousands of Italian and German Americans who were sent to internment camps, mostly in Montana and Texas!! In some ways, the prisoners of the Germans were treated worse than prisoners of Japan. On the other hand, some 20,000,000 Russian soldiers and civilians died in WWII, compared with 6 million German soldiers, a couple million Poles, at least 6,000,000 Jews, 407,000 Americans, and 387,000 from the United Kingdom. Heck, Stalin ordered millions upon millions of his own Russian countrymen executed. Only the countries of Iran and Turkey had fewer people killed in the war than the number of interned Japanese American who died of various non-war causes. For that matter, more Japanese American soldiers were killed while defending America than were lost in US Japanese internment camps. I honor them. The marvelous thing was the extremely LOW Japanese American intern death rate.
A sentence using the word internment?
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese citizens were rounded up and sent to internment camps until the war was over.My three-month internment at Camp Chickapoo was the worst time of my entire childhood.Almost as many men died in the U.S. Civil War internmentcamps as in battle.
What is the difference between Japanese internment camps and nazi concentration camps?
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.
How was the housing in the Japanese Internment camps?
Non-weather resistant, quick, sparse accommodations in non-residential structures in controllable or remote areas is what the Japanese internment camps were like. The buildings were designed previously for non-personal uses -- such as functioning as former racetracks -- even though -- depending upon the regulating agency -- educational, gardening, medical, and sports opportunities hopefully were tendered to children and families.
How many Japanese and Americans died in the battle of Peleliu?
Americans - 1,794 killed / Japanese - 10,695 killed .
