Concentration Camps Vs Japanese Internment Camps Essay

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Over six million Jews died in concentration camps by the end of world war II.Some information about the two camps are. The Japanese got homes, food, and medical care.The Jews were killed and slaughtered.They also got little food and water.The Jot killed but only died of natural causes.The japanese internment camps and German internment camps are not the same thing because the Japanese were not killed, the Americans did it out of fear, and the Japanese still had some freedoms.
The first reason that Internment and concentration camps are different is because the Japanese only died from natural causes and the Jewish people were murdered.Over six million jews died in concentration camps,the Jews were burned, hung, or even gassed to death.This is different than internment camps because no Japanese Americans were killed in the camps,the japanese only died from natural causes and none were murdered.This makes the camps different because the Japanese were not killed or even injured
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The last reason that the internment and concentration camps are different is the Japanese still had some freedoms and the Jews had no freedoms.The Jews had to all sleep in one building and even on top of each of other,they also had a very strict curfew.The Jews were often starved to death but the Japanese were fed the right amount of food.The Jews were murdered but the Japanese were not killed and only died of natural

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