Japanese Internment Camps

The official reasons were that the US government feared that among these persons of Japanese ancestry there might be spies or saboteurs. Within the year before Pearl Harbor the world had seen the importance of such people when Norwegian fascists led by Vidkun Quisling assisted the Nazis in overrunning Norway. This was the origin of the term "fifth column". The US General, John DeWitt, who commanded the military department which included the west coast states recommended to the government that persons of Japanese ancestry be removed from the west coast states, and the suggestion was adopted. It was only the Japanese in the west coast states who were removed to camps. Japanese living elsewhere in the US were not interned. In Hawaii persons of Japanese ancestry amounted to half or more of the population, and they were not interned either, and there were in fact a few spies among them.

Another reason was to protect the Japanese-Americans from attacks by American civilians. There were in fact numerous incidents in the weeks after Pearl Harbor where Asians were attacked, and usually they were not even Japanese, but Chinese.

go on the camp website and it will say it there

Because of the large Japanese population in the west coast states such as California

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22,000 Candian Japanese were interned in camps in Canada. It is tragic. They were recompensed later.

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Yes, children were killed in internment camps.

Following the attack on Pearl harbor in December, 1941, the US declared war on Japan. The US military, concerned about the possibility of spying or sabotage by those of Japanese ancestry, convinced the government to exclude them from militarily important zones on the US Pacific coast. Those of known or suspected Japanese heritage were removed from their homes and interned in desert camps for about 3 years. In many cases they were loyal US citizens descended from Japanese immigrants. However, it took many months for the US courts to consider their complaints, with the US Supreme Court only invalidating their detention in December, 1944.

It was feared that they would be loyal to Japan, rather than the United States; and aid Japan as spies and saboteurs again the American war effort.

In fact the vast majority of Japanese Americans actually favoured the American cause.

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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.

A detainment camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, enemy aliens, people with mental illness, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, usually during a war. The term is used for facilities where inmates selected according to some specific criteria, rather than individuals who are incarcerated after due process of law fairly applied by a judiciary. Much like a Concentration Camp.

internment camps were during the time of ww1. as Australia were fighting against Germany, Australia was very anti Germans like all the allied countries. internment camps is where Australian-Germans were interned. they were unfair as even if you had German in you you may have been interned

There were internement camps because Americans were afraid there were Japanese American's were spying for the Japanese so all Japanese even innocent people were forced into camps just because they were from a similar spectrum of background as the pilots who had bombed Pearl Harbor.

Work or die. No unauthorized talking. No eating meat. No personal possessions. No complaining. No hesitating to follow orders. No religious services or ceremonies.

The group sought compensation for World War II internment.

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Korematsu v. United States

From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.

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Although there is a general reference to 10 Japanese internet comps in the US during the second world war. The data on German and Italian camps is harder to find. There was also a camp for Alaskan natives.

People were forced to leave their homes and businesses and made to live in concentration camps.