District Performance Event
What does America have in common with Germany? Germany had concentration camps and America had Japanese internment camps. Concentration camps were work camps for the people in Germany who were deemed impure, these people often died of disease, starvation, or cyanide gas. Internment camps were plots of land guarded by layers of barbed wire fences, that the Japanese people were put into with no resources. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were essentially the same because both the Jews and the Japanese lost their rights as citizens, in both camps people were dehumanized, and in the two camps were used to jail those who opposed or threatened their governments.

Both the Jews and the Japanese lost their rights as citizens of their countries. First in Japanese internment camps the people were classified as non-alien enemies. The loyal Japanese citizens couldn’t even be called citizens anymore but were classified as non-alien enemies. Second before the concentration camps in Germany, the Jewish people were stripped of their rights to everything, their homes, their businesses, and going to …show more content…
The japanese internment camps were only created out of fear that the Japanese were a threat because of Pearl Harbor. The United States government was scared that the Japanese Americans were spies for Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Next in Germany some of the citizens found out what Hitler was doing with the camps and started to oppose him. when people opposed or threatened Hitler they were sent into concentration camps with the same fate as the Jews. Finally Hitler used the concentration camps to instill fear into those who opposed him. This fear caused many Germans to confess their loyalty to Hitler even if it wasn’t true loyalty. The two governments used both camps to jail those who were thought to oppose or threaten