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WHAT’S THIS? NOT German Concentration Camps but American Internment Camps in the US!!!

Compare and Contrast Internment vs. Holocaust Each slide compares one aspect of life in both Japanese American Interment Camps and German Concentration Camps. What similarities and differences do you see between each??

Nazi Concentration Camps Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison its many millions of victims. These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder. From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called "enemies of the state." Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior. These facilities were called “concentration camps” because those imprisoned there were physically “concentrated” in one location.

Japanese Internment: Executive Order 9066 Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense. The order set into motion the exclusion from certain areas, and the evacuation and mass incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children, were incarcerated for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis, in bleak, remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs; in some cases family members were separated and put into different camps. President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities "concentration camps."

Destruction of Property America Germany America: Japanese Americans found their property (homes etc) damaged by other American citizens Jewish owned shops destroyed by the German military during the night of broken glass “Kristallnacht”

Anti-Semitism= discrimination against Jewish people GERMANY “There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade.” AMERICA "I am for the immediate removal of every Japanese on the West Coast to a point deep in the interior. I don't mean a nice part of the interior either. Herd 'em up, pack 'em off and give 'em the inside room in the badlands... Personally, I hate the Japanese. And that goes for all of them.” VOCAB: Anti-Semitism= discrimination against Jewish people Malady = sickness

Propaganda America Germany Propaganda Definition :  ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc. America: The person attacking the women in the picture is supposed to be a Japanese person. Germany: The poster from Germany is supposed to be depicting a Jewish person, the hands belong to Germans. The text on the poster reads, “The Jew, The cause of war.”

Laws America Germany Executive Order 9066 “Instructions to All People of Japanese Ancestry All Japanese persons, alien and non-alien will be evacuated, from the designated area… No Japanese person will be permitted to enter or leave the prescribed area … evacuated persons should take with them limited clothing and belongings.” Nuremburg Laws “(1) A citizen of the Reich may be only one who is of German or kindred blood, and who, through his behavior, shows that he is both desirous and personally fit to serve loyally the German people and the Reich. (2) Only the citizen of the Reich may enjoy full political rights in consonance with the provisions of the laws.” America: The Order, printed on the left, was posted in Jewish neighborhood that told people of Japanese ancestry, whether they were citizens or not, they had to pack their things, sell their homes and businesses, take only what they can carry, and move to an internment camp in the dessert. Germany: The Law on the right from Germany took all rights away from Jewish people. It basically says that you are no longer a citizen if you are Jewish as Jewish people were not considered German.

Camp Life America Germany

Camp Life America Germany America: Families were allowed to stay together in the camps Germany: Families separated as soon as they entered the camps. Those that the Germans deemed unable to work such as women and children were immediately killed. You lost all of your belongings to the Germans when you entered the camps as well. Also note the physical appearance of the people in both pictures. Who looks well fed and who does not? What does that tell you about life in both places.

Camp Life America Germany

Camp Work America Germany Japanese Internment: Japanese Americans had the option of working for $5.00 a day in the surrounding fields of the camps German Concentration Camps: Prisoners in concentration camps were forced to work or be killed. They were worked without break to the point of exhaustion and sometimes death.

The Numbers Japanese Internment Holocaust 120,000 Detained Lose up to $148 million in property and income Hundreds die from inadequate medical care 6-10 killed by guards Holocaust 6 million European Jews killed During the height of deportations to the camp, up to 6,000 Jews were gassed there each day

First Hand Accounts Gerda and Kurt Klein George Takei

President Obama awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Gerda Weissman Klein

What was the GOAL of each? This is up to you to decide. Is the goal the same for each? If not how is it different? Japanese-American Internment? German Holocaust?