In George Takei’s interview he states,”...we had to take loyalty tests, as if moving away to a camp far away from our home, wasn’t enough to prove that we were.” The purpose for the Japanese internment camps was the fear of being attacked. The Americans were skeptical of the Japanese because they had just bombed America on Pearl Harbor. In the Holocaust documentary it says that people were killed by gas chambers and mass-burnings. When the Nazis got bored they would kill randomly and have random roll calls for hours. This tells me that the purpose of the concentration camps was hate. Finally, the Nazi concentration camps were also known as “death camps”. This proves that the Nazis wanted to kill the Jews and anyone who they felt weren't worthy of being included in the Hitler’s “master …show more content…
They might say that both the Japanese-Americans and the Jews equally got the human rights stripped from them. But that is not true at all, the Jews never completely got their life back, the Japanese-Americans were given back their homes. Also, people might say that their purposes for being at the camps were the same, but that's not true either, one was out of fear and the other out of hate. In conclusion, the Nazi concentration camps and the Japanese internment camps were not essentially the same thing because they had different purposes and different aftermaths, and different locations. Many more Jews were killed than the Japanese-Americans. Jews dealt with much more grief and sadness. They were forever unequal and excluded from