Compare And Contrast Internment Camps And Concentration Camps

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Concentration camps and Internment camps both suggest the same idea, to keep people in hostage until further notice. Also, both of these camps gave the “prisoners” jobs to do while they were kept in hostage. However, internment camps and concentration camps are very different from each other. The living conditions are significantly different and the rooms they were kept in scarred them both differently, knowing that the Japanese-Americans cherish their privacy more than anything. I’m going to compare and contrast both of these camps and why I believe so.

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