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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.

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Differences between Trail of Tears and Japanese internment?

The Trail of Tears was when Cherokee Indians were taken from there homes by the government, and the Japanese Internment camps were there because the government didn't trust Japanese people.


What was an internment camp?

The Japanese Internment Camps were America's version of Concentration Camps for US citizens of Japanese ancestry. However we felt the term Interment was more "polite" than Concentration to describe the camps. There was little difference between them and Nazi Concentration Camps of the time, except that they were not also frequently Extermination Camps where inmates were deliberately executed en masse as in the Nazi camps.


What is the difference between an Japanese internal camp and a concentration camp?

The Japanese internment camps were sort of like special prisons for Japanese-Americans during World War II. The camps weren't very nice, nor was being imprisoned in them, but at the same time, the internees were not tortured or otherwise severely harmed. Still, it's not one of America's proudest moments. They were intended to keep Japanese-Americans on the West Coast from assisting the Japanese military if it ever invaded the USA. The Nazi concentration camps were special prisons that were initially meant to function a lot like the aforementioned internment camps. However, the Nazis didn't wait long to start doing terrible things to the internees, such as using them as slave laborers, performing medical experiments on them, or simply executing them. Unlike the Japanese internment camps, the Nazi concentration camps were intended primarily to get rid of any people that the government didn't like- Jews, Russians, Poles, Romany, homosexuals, political opponents, and so forth.


What is the similarity between Japanese Internment camps and the Nazi Concentration camps?

Japanese internment camps and concentration camps imprisoned citizens during WWII based on racial prejudice and distrust. Although violating their rights as citizens, the US treated the Japanese relatively humanely, whereas the Nazis treated the Jews and other prisoners as animals. The US did not rent out prisoners as labor, perform biological experiments, or deliberately exterminate prisoners. (Guards did kill and injure several Japanese who violated camp boundaries.) Both systems of camps were involuntary yet (at the time) legal restraints on citizens (though not always for foreign nationals). Both designated certain races the government believed to be "undesirable", "inferior" or "disloyal".


What is the difference between Japanese architecture from American architecture?

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

During WW II, the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese both inflicted horrible cruelties upon the people whom they placed in their various camps, the main difference being that the Nazis intended that no one in the camps would survive, while the Japanese were not specifically trying to kill everybody in their camps, although they did mistreat them terribly.


Differences between Trail of Tears and Japanese internment?

The Trail of Tears was when Cherokee Indians were taken from there homes by the government, and the Japanese Internment camps were there because the government didn't trust Japanese people.


What was an internment camp?

The Japanese Internment Camps were America's version of Concentration Camps for US citizens of Japanese ancestry. However we felt the term Interment was more "polite" than Concentration to describe the camps. There was little difference between them and Nazi Concentration Camps of the time, except that they were not also frequently Extermination Camps where inmates were deliberately executed en masse as in the Nazi camps.


What is the difference between an Japanese internal camp and a concentration camp?

The Japanese internment camps were sort of like special prisons for Japanese-Americans during World War II. The camps weren't very nice, nor was being imprisoned in them, but at the same time, the internees were not tortured or otherwise severely harmed. Still, it's not one of America's proudest moments. They were intended to keep Japanese-Americans on the West Coast from assisting the Japanese military if it ever invaded the USA. The Nazi concentration camps were special prisons that were initially meant to function a lot like the aforementioned internment camps. However, the Nazis didn't wait long to start doing terrible things to the internees, such as using them as slave laborers, performing medical experiments on them, or simply executing them. Unlike the Japanese internment camps, the Nazi concentration camps were intended primarily to get rid of any people that the government didn't like- Jews, Russians, Poles, Romany, homosexuals, political opponents, and so forth.


What is simliar between Japanese Internment camps and the Holocaust?

The Internment camps for Japanese-Americans were structures and the Holocaust is a concept. There were camps within the Holocaust designed and used to imprison certain sections of society, much like the internment camps in the USA. But what went on in these camps was very different.


Can you briefly discuss the difference between a concentration gradient and concentration difference?

A concentration gradient refers to the gradual change in concentration of a substance over a distance, while a concentration difference simply indicates the variation in concentration between two points. In essence, a concentration gradient describes how the concentration changes across a space, whereas a concentration difference highlights the contrast in concentration between specific locations.


What is the same between treatment of the Jews during the holocasust and the Japanese in the American internment camps?

There is no comparison at all!


What were the really big different between the japenes camp and the concentration camps in wartime nazi Germany?

It is unclear whether you mean the Japanese internment camps in the USA or the POW camps in Japan, as comparisons are often made with both, so i will answer both questions: Nazi concentration camps were camps for civilians, designed to keep certain sections of society out of the way, as were the Japanese internment caps. The really big difference between the two was how people were treated, in the Nazi camps people were used as slave labour and killed, in the American camps people were allowed to live with their families and suffered no greater persecution. Japanese had not signed the Geneva convention (despite what 'Bridge on the River Kwai' said), so felt no obligation to treat the POWs well, in fact they viewed soldiers who surrendered as unworthy, so the felt justified in mistreating the POWs. The really big difference is that they were military institutions.


What forms a concentration whenever there is a difference in concentration between one place and another?

A concentration gradient forms when there is a difference in concentration between one place and another.


What is the difference between the concentration of a particular molecule in one area and the concentration in an adjacent area?

The concentration gradient is the difference in concentration of a molecule between one area and an adjacent area. This difference creates a gradient that drives the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration, a process known as diffusion.


What is the difference in concentration between a region of high concentration and one of lower concentration?

There is no exact number assigned to the difference between the higher and lower concentrations. However, the establishment of a concentration differential is essential for both diffusion as well as osmosis.


What kind of concentration forms whenever there is a difference in concentration between one place and another?

A gradient forms when there is a difference in concentration between two places. This gradient drives the movement of substances from areas of higher concentration to areas of lower concentration through processes such as diffusion or osmosis.