Japanese Concentration Camps

Imagine being escorted out of your home by armed soldiers, not being able to take any of your personal belongings and thrown in camps because you were different. The Japanese and Japanese-Americans were thrown into camps out of fear and paranoia in general after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Jewish people were thrown into camps out of hatred Hitler and the Nazi’s had for them. Although both internment camps and concentration camps were wrong only the Japanese got the rightful apology they deserved. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps are not the same thing because they both took place for two completely different reasons, the prisoners reactions to being thrown into camps were different, and overall both prisoners were …show more content…
First off the Japanese went along with the relocation while the Jewish people were totally against it and went in hiding to stay out of the Nazi camps. Although the Japanese were escorted out of their homes by armed soldiers and thrown into cattle cars, they went along with it to show loyalty and pride towards America. From the George Takei video it was said “that the camps were closed in by three layers of barbed wires fences, there was little chance to escape no one tried...”. The Jews were totally against being thrown into camps willing to go into hiding to escape Hitler’s grasp on them. Take Anne Frank and the rest of the Frank family for example, who were in hiding for at least three years (Anne Frank Diary). Second of all the way the Japanese and the Jews responses within the camps were completely different. As mentioned earlier, in the George Takei video it was said “the camps were closed in by three layers of barbed wires fences, there was little chance to escape no one tried...”. In other words the Japanese weren’t really focused on escaping, they were more focused on making the best out of what was given to them. In the Nazi camps the prisoners acted nothing like that. The Jews were scared to escape, and lived in the camps in fear. Lastly the in the Japanese camps education was promoted while the Jewish camps didn’t really care about that. It was mentioned in the George Takei video that the Japanese kids went to schools and enjoyed it. In the Jewish camps all prisoners had to work including the kids. In this case both internment camps and concentration camps are nothing alike because of the way the prisoners