Japanese-American Internment Camps

WWII occurred from 1939 to 1945 and it involved most of the nations of the world allied against Italy, Japan, and Germany. During this time in Germany the Nazi regime was in power as the main source of government and as so they were able to easily put the Jewish people inside the concentration camps. In America, Roosevelt was in power and passed a document that put the Japanese-Americans inside of internment camps. While the beginning of the incarceration of both the Japanese-Americans and Jews within camps during WWII were similar and follow the “Stages of Genocide” put forth by Gregory H. Stanton, the treatment of the Japanese-American people within these camps does not compare to the level of suffering the Jewish people faced. The

Just like before with the prominent members of society the Japanese-Americans did nothing wrong but were still punished for the actions of the home country. After these attacks the Japanese-American community was attacked both physically and mentally by both American society and the media (“Behind the Wire”, n.d.). There were lists that were put up inside neighborhoods and around towns with a list of rules that the Japanese people had to follow, examples are curfews. Eventually the government issued Civilian Exclusion Orders which issued the
Japanese-Americans to the internment camps and what to do following reading it (“Behind the Wire”, n.d.). After this the Japanese people were instructed to load trains and they were transported to the Internment camps (“Behind the Wire”, n.d.). All these things leading up to the internment camps were unconstitutional and just abusive. From the abuse they faced with from the restrictions put on their lives from the government. These all are steps on “Stages of Genocide” by Gregory H. Stanton which says something on how the badly the Japanese-Americans were treated if it leads to

They were located within the desert and they people were made to sleep in military style bunkers according to the United States National Parks Service (2015). While in the camps the prisoners were constantly watched by military personnel and were surrounded by barb wire (USNPS, 2015). The camp was set up prison style with the brackens and they all also had to eat in the mess halls, all sharing bathrooms as well (USNPS, 2015). They did however get to stay with their families, which is very important to Japanese family values. These conditions definitely were not ideal but were nothing compared to what the Jewish people went through in the