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Concentration Camps 1933-1939 Summary
In “ Did the United States put its own citizens in concentration camps during WWII” the author writes about internment camps in the U.S. In the other article “ Concentration Camps 1933 - 1939” the author writes about Concentration Camps in Germany. Although those were two camps during WWII they still were very different in their people, places, and events. The first article included a number of people, places, and events. One group of people in particular were the Japanese ( 112,00 of them). The Japanese were forced to move to internment camps where they were put one family to a single room. The event that triggered all of this was the attack on Pearl Harbor where the Japanese bombed a U.S. base. These are only a few of the many people, places,

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