Japanese could volunteer to work, but the Jews could either work or be punished.
The video “The Holocaust Documentary” It stated that, “ Jews who didn’t do jobs were sent to the gas chambers to die. Freedom was little for the Jews all men worked while women were with children and elders. The women were taken off the buses when they arrived at camp and taken to grassy fields with children and elders. The men that arrived would either walk into the gas chambers thinking they were going to shower or start working. There were signs that made jews think if they worked hard enough they would be free. There were signs when you entered camp saying,
“ Arbeit Macht Frei ” which means “Work makes {you} free.” The Jews never quite worked hard enough to become free, they just worked as hard as they could and …show more content…
The Japanese had to take a 40 Question test thinking they would have freedom after. There were 2 key questions on the test, If they answered yes or no their answer was never right. If they answered yes on one question they were moved to a more guarded area. The Japanese volunteered to join the army because they needed to more people. The Japanese did anything to get out of the camps but nothing they tried doing to help would work just because of their race. In the USA propaganda made it sound like the Japanese were fine with moving like it was all voluntary. In the video of George Takei he said that “They brutally took us from our home with none of our stuff with us.” Even though the Jews had it worse the Japanese had it bad too. Although the Japanese had it bad those prime examples do not have enough support to prove that they were just as bad. Jewish concentration camps and the Japanese internment camps weren’t the same, Jewish were brutally killed & more brutal in camps, Hitler didn’t care if Jews died and their camps were way more secured, and Japanese weren’t forced to work unlike the Jews. Japanese had it bad, but the Jews had it worse, The Jews had nearly no freedom at all, Japanese had nearly none either but Jews had it worse. Jews had to work, but the Japanese could volunteer to work. Less Jews after the war, more Jews were killed than the Japanese by the end of the