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Similarities Between Germany And America
During World War II, there was extreme prejudice in Germany against Jews and in America against the Japanese. Jews were stripped of their rights and likewise with Japanese. In Germany and America, the oppressed Jews and Japanese were treated in a similar condition. They both experienced the unthinkable like the boycott of their respectable businesses, the looting of their abandoned homes, a national curfew, transported to concentration camps and the constant racism towards them. There were many similarities between the way the Jews in Germany and the Japanese in America were treated. Thus, the world learned from the way they were treated that never again a minority should be so harshly treated.
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