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.
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At the Topaz internment camp in Utah, where Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II, there were a total of 11 recorded deaths. These deaths were primarily due to health-related issues, exacerbated by the harsh conditions of the camp. The camp housed around 8,000 Japanese-Americans, many of whom faced significant hardships during their internment.
1947. Crystal City, Texas, was the location of the largest internment camp administered by the INS and Department of Justice. November 1, 1947, more than two years after the end of World War II, the Crystal City internment camp closed; the last facility detaining alien enemies to do so. - The Handbook of Texas Online http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/WW/quwby.html
The name of the main concentration camp to which Spain and Germany deported thousands of Basques to die is the Gurs internment camp.
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour and the USA then set up internment camps for any Japanese living in the USA. The Japanese were put into internment camps as they were considered a threat to the country. Here in the UK they did the same thing with Italians and Germans living in the UK.
Honouliuli Internment Camp was created in 1943.
Honouliuli Internment Camp ended in 1945.
An internment camp holds whomever the authorities want to hold. A "prisoner of war" camp is a special kind of internment camp, one that holds foreign soldiers captured in combat.
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See: Japanese American internment
internment area for POW's
No --- I believe you're thinking of Manzanar. Manzanar was an internment camp used for the Japanese during WWII.
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the Gila River camp was located 30 miles southeast of Phoenix.
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The largest Japanese Internment Camp built during World War 2 was the Oikawa camp in Nevada. It held approximately 50,000 people against their will during the war.