Compare and contrast prison camps and concentration camps during World War 2?

Answer 1

In the Pacific theater, the Japanese military outlook provided no mercy for Allied soldiers that surrendered. The Japanese believed in fighting to the death. Because of this, Japanese prison camps were essentially concentration camps. Allied prisoners died in the thousands from disease, overwork, and malnourishment. However in Europe, they were distinct. Concentration camps housed those deemed unfit, or in some way non-Aryan. People were put there not because they were soldiers, but because they were civilians. Allied prisoners of war in Europe generally received better treatment, and were not put to death on the scale of those in concentration camps.

Answer 2

In World War 2 internment camps were used to hold people who were considered a potential danger, without trial. For example, in the Allied countries, many German, Italian and Japanese citizens in Britain and the US. were interned. The conditions in these camps varied, but the death toll was small.

In World War 2 Nazi concentration camps were used:

• as punishment camps for political opponents
• as forced labour camps
• as extermination camp

In all these camps the death toll was high, ranging from about 17.5% at Dachau to just under 100% at Balzac, But in concentration camps it was more of a deathtoll.

Answer 3

A concentration camp is a prison camp for the detention of aliens, members of ethnic minorties, poltical opponents, etc. like the Germans condemned the Jews and other minorities to during WWII. An internment camp is a prison camp for the imprisonment of enemies such as POW's like the Americans had for the JAPANESE-AMERICAN RESIDENTS during WWII. the only difference is that internment camps are for prisoners of war and concentration camps are for minorities that you are not technically at war with. The U.S. was at war with Japan; Hitler was not at war with the Jews.

Answer 4

the ordinary meaning of concentration camp is a place where certain people are assembled against their wills to be treated cruelly or killed. The Nazi death camps of WWII are an example.

An internment camp is a place of temporary confinement for certain people that is used to isolate them from others for some reason. The reason may be right or wrong, but the purpose is more benign than concentration camps. the occupants are usually there involuntarily but generally treated more fairly than those in concentration camps. An example would be the internment camps in the USA for Japanese Americans during WWII

Actually, the first "concentration camps" in modern times were used by the British to hold prisoners during the Boer Wars in South Africa.

Seems that, earlier, Boer prisoners were released on "probation". That is, they would agree to stay on their farms and refrain from fighting any further.

Often, they returned to the fighting.

The "solution" was, either, a "no prisoners" policy....which wasn't popular with the British people...or imprisoning captives.

The system, like most systems, expanded. I believe family members, sometimes, were imprisoned with fighters.

Maybe so they couldn't give aid and comfort to other fighters.

Answer 5

Internment camps (primarily used on Japanese people) was meant for only detaining them.

Concentration camps (primarily used on Jews, Gypsies, Poles, and POWs) could be used for labor, extermination, experimentation, detainment, and many other reasons.

Answer 6

Same thing, different name. Internment camps weren't known as concentration camps until the mid-1930's, when Heinrich Himmler (leader of Hitler's SS) announced the creation of specialized camps where political enemies could be "concentrated."

Answer 7

Both were involuntary but legal restraints on citizens. The concentration

camps were further used to exploit their victims of their labor at the risk of

their lives.

Answer 8

the slave plantations are worse