japanese American International Camp is a concentration camp. 62% of the internees were United States citizens. During WW2‚ between 110‚000 and 120‚000 japanese people were taken into a concentration camp. Thousands of people were tortured there and were fed very little. Months later after japanese bombed pearl harbor‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed some papers saying all Japanese-Americans to go to the west coast for evacuation. All japanese-Americans were sent to a camp. In 1945‚ They were all
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The Dachau Concentration Camp was the first camp established in March 1933.It became the first concentration camp made by the Nazis. It was placed by a munitions factory by the city Dachau. It is nearly 10 miles from Munich‚ Germany. In the first year there were 4‚800 prisoners. The first prisoners were German Communists‚ Social Democrats‚ Trade Unionists‚ and other opponents of the Nazis. During 1937 the SS made the prisoners construct a large group of buildings on the grounds of
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Buchenwald Concentration Camp Buchenwald was a German Nazi camp. It was one of the advance and largest concentration camps in Germany. The camp was built in a wooded area on the northern slopes of Ettersberg. It was about 5 miles northwest of Weimar in east central Germany. Two hundred and fifty five Jews died of their mistreatment. The Buchenwald concentration camp was also recognized as the birthplace of German fundamental democracy in 1919‚ the Weimar Republic. Political prisoners
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The Atrocities and Liberation of Concentration Camps If you combine sadistic Nazi soldiers‚ a "license to kill‚" and twenty-six million people whom they took their aggression out on‚ you have the Holocaust. From torture to murder‚ the concentration camp prisoners experienced almost every despicably‚ inhumane act one can imagine. Hitler ’s Nazis will never be able to justify this ultimate example of cruelty and unfairness. Although the Holocaust occurred nearly seventy years
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After visiting Dachua concentration camp‚ I learned that my worldview and the worldview of those who were imprisoned collided on the issue of human development. The lifestyle in the concentration camp was formed to incorporated dehumanizing tactics that altered the prisoners’ human development. The prisoners’ names were removed and given a number so incorporate the lack of individuality and personalization. Their belongings‚ possession‚ social class‚ and job was striped from their identity and removed
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Throughout the book‚ Eli losses strong relationships and close connection with his family. First Eli losses connection with his mother and little sister. Not only did Eli family loss connection but other Jewish families did too. All the clueless Jewish families lost connection right as they got to the camp and off the train. That day the Jewish community is when women are going one way and the men are going the other way. A family is suppose to stay together through bad and good times but when “Eight
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In the novel the night trilogy by Elie Wiesel‚ the author Elie says “if in my lifetime I was to write only one book‚ this would be the one.” (The night trilogy‚ Preface to the new translation‚ Pg 5) This book is very important to him. He communicates with us his experience and thoughts during the holocaust. He expresses what he witnessed and endured with disbelief and heartbreak. Everything he tolerated as an adolescent was hard to process as it would be for anyone who was in such a horrid situation
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In World War II‚ there were many concentration camps. Europe topped the charts of having large amounts of camps across the continent. These concentration camps were created for the purpose of “racially undesirable elements‚” such as Jews‚ homosexuals‚ nomadic ethnic groups‚ and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Even though the most originals were built just for the use of labor. The word “concentration” itself was portrayed as an idea of using documents to be confined to one specific place for a period of time
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off to concentration camps instead were considered lucky. What many people didn’t know and still don’t know is how the concentration camps were a mire figure of hell on earth. Only a small fraction of the people sent to concentration camps came out surviving. One of the most famous survivors of the holocaust is Elie Wiesel. It has been said he “survived the most
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worse. Nazis had been invading other countries and taking them over. I soon found out what concentration camps were. They were places where Jews were sent. Many had already died because of the hard labor and the cruel ways of killing people‚ like gas chambers. Such things like these gave me nightmares. Every time I saw a Nazi soldier I was afraid they were going to pick me up and put me in a concentration camp. My parents tell me that there’s nothing to be afraid of since we’re not Jewish and German
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