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Someone told you they were slightly better than Hitler's camps!. Dont put that in your paper!. There was no organized systematic murder, nor any killing at all that Ive ever heard of!.

The reason they were put in the camps is the government was afraid that among the Japanese-Americans there might be spies or "fifth-columnists"!. (The fifth column was a reference to Norway, where just two years before Vidkun Quisling had betrayed his own homeland and helped the Nazis invade and take over!.) Because it was feared they would help the Japanese, and it was thought that the Japanese might attack the west coast of the US, where most Japanese-American lived, these internees were sent to camps in the central part of America, usually in some remote location!. These were often unused Army bases!. So maybe 8 families would be put in one big open barracks at first, and they would have to try to rig up blankets for partitions for any privacy!. They very quickly organized schools for the children, and did all they could to make bleak surroundings more bearable!. Many of the young men who were old enough enlisted in the US Army at the first opportunity, where they were collected in the 442nd Regiment, which became THE most decorated regiment of the war (its members won the most medals)!. They did this knowing their families were still in the camps!.

Because the decision was made hastily to intern the Japanese-Americans on the mainland, and was hurriedly implemented, the people had no chance to prepare!. They had to sell their houses, if they could, for what anybody might offer!. They lost their businesses, and many were successful small businessmen!.

Its hardly remembered today that there were internments of Italian-Americans and German-Americans as well!. There were many millions of these in America and they could not possibly intern them all!. Many of these were interned on Ellis Island in New York Harbor!. The FBI investigated these people and once they were satisfied they werent a threat, they were released, while the Japanese were kept in the camps until the war was over (or after)!.

People from other Asian countries were often harassed on the suspicion they might be Japanese, and sometimes investigated!. Most of these were of Chinese ancestry, and its kind of ironic since the US got drawn into the war largely over what Japan had been doing to the Chinese!.

Its also barely remembered that the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii, where Pearl Harbor is located, were NOT interned, though they made up about half the population of Hawaii, and there WERE a few actual spies among them!. Many loyal Japanese-Americans had been in the Hawaii National Guard before the war, and they were put out, but later got the chance to form the 100th Battalion, which worked with the 442nd Regiment and displayed equally magnificent bravery, and complete loyalty!.

This is a far cry from Hitler's death camps, where people were robbed of everything they had before arrival - and were sorted on arrival - those best able to work would be sorted out, and worked to death in an average of eight months!. Some young women were forced to become prostitutes for the German troops!. The rest were immediately killed!.

The government of the US apologized for the treatment of the Japanese-Americans over 30 years ago, and paid reparations for the loss of homes and businesses, etc!.

Here's some links:

http://www!.geocities!.com/Athens/8420/mai!.!.!.
http://www!.sfmuseum!.org/war/evactxt!.html
http://www!.apfn!.org/apfn/camps!.htm
http://www!.lib!.utah!.edu/spc/photo/9066/9!.!.!.
http://www!.pbs!.org/childofcamp/
http://www!.umbc!.edu/history/CHE/techerpa!.!.!.
http://www!.lib!.washington!.edu/exhibits/h!.!.!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/442nd_Regim!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The Japanese-Americans were paid for the work they did and they lived in small barn-like stalls!. They were feed!. Some people call them American Concentration camps but the difference is the Japanese-Americans were not killed like the Jews were in the Holocaust!.

Just type in "Japanese Interment camps" in google!.com

It's not Japanese American Concentration Camps!. It's Interment camps!. You might want to know that to start off with!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Lets just say that "internment camp" is a polite euphemism for "concentration camp" Don't sugar-coat it, we took a group of people and concentrated them in camps, CONCENTRATION CAMPS!. They weren't killed, but they lost their homes, businesses, and property!. Further they were publicly humiliated!. Don't think racism didn't play a role, the Propaganda films are still alive!. American planes shooting Japanese life boats from sinking cargo ships!. We treated them far too similar to how Hitler treated the Jews, not as much on the homefront as on the battlefield!. We dropped nukes on civilians to see how they would work on real people, not because we had to!. We used flamethrowers in the Pacific, and not in Europe!. On most levels, racism played a huge role!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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They were not called "Concentration Camps" so I suggest you do not call them this!. They were called "War Relocation Camps"!. President Franklin Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons may be excluded!." In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion orders, while noting that the provisions that singled out people of Japanese ancestry were a separate issue outside the scope of the proceedings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I think you'll get a good start at the National Park Service website!. I got an opportunity to go to Manzanar about 15 years ago while I was working for the YCC in Death Valley!.

Here is the website!. At the very least I hope it will point you in the right direction: http://www!.nps!.gov/manz/

I personally think hygiene would be an interesting topic (and one not many people tackle)!.

Did you know that Ansel Adams documented the internment camp at Manzanar!? I had no idea!. There is a short intro about how he felt about it and a link to his pictures within the same website: http://www!.nps!.gov/manz/photosmultimedia!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Geez, yes Japanese-Americans were treated unfairly and lost money and opportunity by being transported into camps, but anyone who even thinks of comparing their treatment to what the Nazi's did in Europe should be given electro-shock treatment!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Did you try googling it!?!? They werent treated nicely, some were killed, but it might have been slightly better than Hitler's camps!.

Far from nice though!. I'll try and post some links!.!.!.I'm basing this off of Snow Falling On Cedars, which isnt the best source, I'm aware!.

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Japanese_Am!.!.!.
http://www!.pbs!.org/childofcamp/history/i!.!.!.
http://www!.infoplease!.com/spot/internmen!.!.!.

LOTS of links!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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write about how some camps were forgot about and stayed open after the warWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Wish I knew!.!.don't knowWww@QuestionHome@Com

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