Introduction
World War II is known for their
brutal Concentration/Extermination camps throughout Europe made by the Nazis.
But what people don’t know is that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, America gave
their own Japanese citizens rough treatment; they forced them into Japanese
Internment
camps. Although the Internment camps weren’t as deadly as the camps
in Europe, they were still severe. People don’t realize that America is also to blame
for what they did to their citizens. The horror of the internment camps in America was often overshadowed by the camps created by the Nazis. Although the Holocaust was a very brutal part of our world’s
history, and is a crucial event that we should forever remember, the Japanese
Internment camps were also a significant part our world’s history. We should
forever pay our tributes to the civilians who suffered and lost their lives in
the Holocaust as well as the Japanese who suffered and died in the internment
camps in America. Although the camps were different in treatment and levels of
hostility, the Nazis aren’t the only ones who imprisoned their civilians; the
world should also know what America did to their own Japanese American citizens.
Although America wasn’t directly trying to harm their civilians and
had “good” reason for what they did, Europe was not the only continent to
have camps since North America did as well. Every nation has its ugly history and its beneficial accomplishments.
By: Ayeesha Hossain, Esha Sheth, and Saranya Chandrasekhar