Compare And Contrast German And Japanese Internment Camps

Did you know the U.S government paid over 1.6 billion dollars to 82,219 Japanese Americans who occupied the internment camps and the German government made a museum for the concentration camps survivors. The U.S camps targeted Japanese because two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Ordering all Japanese-Americans to be relocated to 1 of the 10 internment camps across the US. The Nazi Germany camps targeted Jews because Hitler believes that the Jewish financiers caused the first world war. Which was the death of 100,000 German soldiers. Shortly after he came to power he made the first of 40,000 concentration camps. These facts show similarities and differences and there are more to come.

But Nazi Germany imprisoned Jews, homosexuals, and etc. Hitler believed that the homosexuals were parasites, an estimated 55,000 were executed. The German government didn’t apologize till 2002. Other reasons for people being brought to the concentration camps were, Jehovah’s witnesses, criminals, political prisoners, and Antisocial/ Romany. Jehovah’s witnesses were imprisoned because they refused to do any military services, so they were sent to the concentration camps.

A similarity is that both camps happened in WW2. The Nazi Germany camps before WW2 but they both had camps running during WW2. The U.S had a total of 10 camps while the Nazis had a total of 23 main camps and over 40,000 subcamps. They had this many camps because a majority of the German population were Jews. An irregularity of the camps is that the U.S only sent up to 120,000 Japanese Americans to the internment camps, while the concentration camps had 11 million deaths alone. 6 million deaths from