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.
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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.
See website: Japanese-American internment camps.
Exactly the same number as Mexican-Japanese.
Japanese Americans living in the U.S. and Hawaii.
How were civil liberties denied Japanese Americans during World War II.
Either live in the Japanese Concentration/Internment camps or fight in Europe.
Of the approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans who were relocated to internment camps during World War 2, 62% of them were American citizens. Half of those interned were children.
The US government felt that the Japanese Americans might spy for Japan and the government sent them to internment camps.
Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. This internment occurred even if they were no threat.
the Japanese Americans.
Distrust and racism led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. Even families that had lived in the United States for generations were sent to camps.
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Japanese americans..
Japanese Americans living in the U.S. and Hawaii.
About 120000
Japanese-Americans.
How were civil liberties denied Japanese Americans during World War II.
A Japanese internment camp was where Japanese and Japanese Americans were housed during World War II. Japanese Americans were stripped of their possessions and taken to camps with just the minimum needed to live. Even young children were taken.
The USA was worried about the Japanese-Americans on the coast supplying Japanese with information and helping the Japanese attack the USA in any way. So the USA put the Japanese-Americans in internment camps.
Internment camps