There are many similarities and differences between the Japanese camps and the Nazi camps. Some similarities between both the Japanese and the Nazi camps are that both the Jews and the Japanese were sent to ghettos before they entered the actual camps, they were all given a number to be called by, and they were both kept in the dark about what was actually happening.
There are also many differences between the Nazi camps and the Japanese internment camps like the Japs were paid stipends to work, while the Jews were forced to work and were slaves. All the Jews were separated by gender but the Japs were allowed to stay together with their families. Also the Nazi camps were …show more content…
In the video people were told they were being kept in the camps for their own protection but actual they were being kept there for the protection of everyone else, or at least they thought they were protecting everyone else. In the video the older man talked about how a boy in the 7th grade wrote an essay about how a security guard told him that the government put them inside these camps to keep them safe and the boy asked why the guns were pointed inside the camps then . In the Nazi death camps they also went a long time without knowing they were in serious danger. In Elie's story Night he talks about how the German soldiers were really kind to them at first and the woman were told the buildings they were going into were showers but they were actually gas …show more content…
They were allowed “day passes” which gave them the right to go to town once a week for two hours a day with their stipends. In the jewish camps Elie explains in the book Night about how the entire camp was surrounded in wire electrical fence and there was no way out. The jews were worked as slaves, and were given no payment for the endless hours they worked.
In Elie's book Night he talks about how his mother and sister were separated from him and his father, His mother and sister were sent to the right while him and his father were sent to the left. All women and children were sent to be killed while the men were sent to be worked. In the video they talk about how even though some people were sent to other camps because they were a “threat” mostly everyone was kept together with their families the best they could .
In conclusion what happened to both the Japanese and the Jews was unfair and not right. They Japanese struggled to make the camps their home even though it wasn't and the Jews were treated very badly and unfairly. They were