Japanese Concentration Camps: Similarities And Differences

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A concentration camp is a place where ¨prisoners” are held mainly to work or be executed. The Japanese and the United States had different ideas of concentration camps. They definitely had more differences than similarities. The United States used internment camps instead of the concentration camps used by the Nazis in Germany. The internment camp I'll be talking about is called Camp Harmony and the Japanese concentration camp I will be talking about is all their camps in general. The United States’ version of concentration camps and the Japanese version of concentration camps have their similarities and differences.

The Nazis believed that all Jews didn't deserve to live and that's why they were put into concentration camps. The Americans

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