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    What was the role of the POW camps and what treatment was received by the prisoners and what did the prisoners do in the camps? During World War II over 140‚000 prisoners were kept in Japanese’s camps. These camps took away the prisoners clothes‚ food and anything they have been carrying through-out the war. The prisoners who lived in these camps were contained by guards‚ the guards were cruel and abusive mentally and physically. These type of camps were often kept as a secret to the rest of

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    slaughterhouse;Concentration camps. Concentration camps were developed to ensure the mistreatment of Jews in places such as Auschwitz. To begin‚ “Concentration camps were established in 1933 for the confinement of opponents of the Nazi party” (Concentration Camp). Out of all of the people sent to concentration camps‚ Jews made up the majority. As the war progressed‚ three types of concentration camps came to exist. The first type of camps were prison camps. Prison camps were designed to hold prisoners

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    application for the Summer Camp Counselor internship position posted on the University of Iowa’s HireaHawk.com. I possess the qualifications desired to effectively execute the duties and responsibilities of a summer camp counselor. My diverse work experiences and educational background demonstrate my ability to successfully produce the quality outcomes expected by both the administration and participants of Camp Starlight. I provide two years of experience as a camp counselor. My experiences

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    relocate to internment camps. President FDR signed the Executive Order 9066 which made them evacuate the West Coast in which they resided in. This order was signed two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th‚ 1941. Some believe that this was necessary to make America more secure but the internment camps were unconstitutional and unfair to the Japanese. The Japanese internment camps in the United States were unjust for many reasons. For one‚ the ten camps that the Japanese Americans

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    the first thing that comes to mind is probably not Nazi Concentration Camps. Most people think death‚ brutal‚ and inhumane when they think of concentration camps. Music does not seem like it would play a big part in a place where millions were brutally murdered day in and day out. This is why music in concentration camps is considered paradoxical; in other words contradicting. The music was paradoxical in concentration camps because music helped prisoners remember who they are and what they came

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    Gross Rosen concentration camp was originally established as a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen camp. Not all concentration camps were the same in the early 1940s‚ some camps had other uses for the nazis. On May 1‚ 1941 Gross Rosen became an independent concentration camp. About an estimate of 125‚000 prisoners half of these were women were send to Gross Rosen were in Gross Rosen. On June 8‚1941 the first group of Jews arrived to Gross Rosen concentration camp. Gross Rosen

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    Granada War Relocation Center Located in Amache (Granada) Colorado this camp had a peak population of 7‚318 Japanese Americans mainly from California. This camp opened on August 24th‚ 1942 and closed on October 15th‚ 1945; within this time there were 120 deaths‚ and 31 volunteers to fight in the war. Conditions in this camp were primitive; there was no insulation or furniture in the barracks‚ and they were heated through coal-burning stoves. The Granada center became the tenth largest city in

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    Auschwitz: Overview of the Concentration Camp The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler‚ in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race‚ decided that Jews‚ Poles‚ Soviet prisoners of war‚ Roma (Gypsies)‚ and homosexuals amongst others were to be eliminated from the German population. One of his main methods of exterminating these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941‚ Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided

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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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    POW Camps During World War II During World War II there were many camps but the most in America were Internment camps and the most in Japan were American POW camps and they both can be compared and contrasted. In Japan in WWII Japanese doctors and military personnel killed‚ tortured and experimented on thousands of American soldiers who flew and fought in Japan this was exercised by dozens of hospitals and military camps (McCurry). As it says the Americans were not treated very fairly over in Japan’s

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