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Similarities Of Different Groups Of People During World War II
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What do two totally different groups of people have in common? During the time between 1939 and 1945 World War II took place. During this war there was an event known as the holocaust. And a huge attack at the American Naval Base, Pearl Harbor that took place in 1941. During the war, many Japanese-Americans were relocated to internment camps in the western part of the United States. Hitler tried to make as many people hate Jews as possible. The Nazis made ads that stated that Jews were the reason they were suffering. The Nazis also took Jewish people away and put them in camps, known as concentration camps.

People in both camps lived in bad conditions. Some of the Japanese came close to death and starvation. Some survivors
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They often worked quickly, and they knew what they were doing. They were smart at what they did. They were very powerful. But most of all they were wrong in what they did, they might have been intellectual persons but their judgment was furrowed when they let the power of words get to them. Many Jews were tortured and killed.

Some of the similarities were that both Japanese-Americans and Jews were taken away from home, they both lost valuable possessions, treated unfairly, violence was used against them, people made assumptions because they were afraid. Although there are many similarities, There are also many
Schomaker 2 differences the camps were both caused because of fear. But for different reasons. For the Nazi’s they were afraid the Jews were going to end up killing them and that their economy going to go down because of jewish authorities. With the americans, they were scared because they didn't trust that there were japanese americans in our country and that there might be some traitors telling confidential data to the japanese. Another difference is that while Nazis wanted to kill off this particular population, americans just wanted to keep an eye on japanese-americans. Japanese-Americans were isolated but they were kept in the U.S., violence was used in order to keep them in one place. Jews were forced out of germany and brutally tortured, many were exterminated in huge

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