Japanese Internment Camp
According to Joseph G. Peterson (2012), “Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so long ago, young man. To you it is a history story. To me it is my life.” This quote that many people died during WWII including the axis power living in the states. The cause of this came from Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7. Thousands of enemy alien were deported to internment camps and some families even got separated. During WWII internment camps were temporary prison camps for those who were considered “enemy aliens,” including Japanese-Americans, German-Americans, Italian-Americans, and all their relatives living in the United States. Japanese-American
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Crystal city helped many families reunited and it helps to reduce the hardship for the families. Most prisoners did not have to work as hard as the prisoners from the other camps would have (Texas state historical association, 2016). The guard and the prisoners treated each other with respect to avoid a conflict. There were total of five languages spoken in the camp; Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. This camp were mainly divided into 2 separated camps as German and Japanese. Everything is separated into nations even though there were not a conflict between them Smith, …show more content…
But German and Italian were also part of the Japanese alliances, so they also went through the discrimination with Japanese. They were considered as “enemy aliens” and were put into temporary internment camps. There were a total of ten camps around the cities of the seven states. There were full of barbed -wires around the camps but the prisoners were able to make the best out of the camps and try to live as a normal life they would have in the “outside” life. After the war, most of the prisoners were homeless and some just stick in the camps which lead them to their death. America citizens of Japanese, Germans, Italian Americans died in World War two as a result of internment
Crystal city helped many families reunited and it helps to reduce the hardship for the families. Most prisoners did not have to work as hard as the prisoners from the other camps would have (Texas state historical association, 2016). The guard and the prisoners treated each other with respect to avoid a conflict. There were total of five languages spoken in the camp; Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. This camp were mainly divided into 2 separated camps as German and Japanese. Everything is separated into nations even though there were not a conflict between them Smith, …show more content…
But German and Italian were also part of the Japanese alliances, so they also went through the discrimination with Japanese. They were considered as “enemy aliens” and were put into temporary internment camps. There were a total of ten camps around the cities of the seven states. There were full of barbed -wires around the camps but the prisoners were able to make the best out of the camps and try to live as a normal life they would have in the “outside” life. After the war, most of the prisoners were homeless and some just stick in the camps which lead them to their death. America citizens of Japanese, Germans, Italian Americans died in World War two as a result of internment