What was similar? What was different?

Question

Compare the treatment of Japanese Americans in the United States during wall war II with that of Jews in Germany.

Answer 1

The Japanese and the Jews where both sent to concentrated camps, but in the U.S the prisoners were not forced to work to death and they were not killed of like in Germany. The only time the Japanese were shot at was when they tried to escape.

Answer 2

j**s: Internment camp, its basically..."good prison." You can have school, your own mini-business, stores, government supplies then with food, just a fence off community...with barbed wires with guards arm with rifles and automatic weapons.

Jews: Concentration camps, they were like force work/death camps, one meal a day, force labor, bad living condition, its bad...

Answer 3

it was evil in both ways that just because of the bombings in pearl harbor the innocent japanese had to suffer aswell.

but there's still a huge difference between the two.

the most obvious is the fact that not as many japanese were killed when they were sent to the camps. and when they were killed it was mainly for trying to escape. the jews were killed, tortured, and experimented on for no reason maybe just saying or doing the wrong thing by mistake. the U.S. was doing it because of the protection of our country. while hitler was doing it because he wanted to exterminate anyone that wasn't german and many other rediculous reasons.

Answer 4

OK.  On an essay test, this might say "Compare and contrast," and you have correctly said what that means.

  

In addition to what that guy who already answered said, I think the U.S. govt. claimed they were doing it to protect the Japanese Americans from harm, since the other citizens of this country were often hostile toward them.  

In this county (Sonoma County) in California, there was some hostility, but also some farming neighbors who were friends.  Some of those neighbors looked after the farms of the Japanese Americans while they were gone.  Similarly, in Germany, some non-Jews tried to help the Jewish people by hiding them or helping them leave the country.

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