In 1942, the Department of War ordered internment of over 1,000 Hawaiian Japanese-Americans and over 100,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They lost all of their property and were told to bring only what they could carry. They were shipped to prision camps. They were not even proven guilty.
The internment of Japanese Americans was more of a security measure. This was because it was a concern that some of them might be spies secretly working for Japan. This was more of a West Coast idea. The people were segregated from the public. Most of the camps were located in California.
Many were mistreated in the camps. This is no way similar to the holocaust. The Germans were performing "ethnic cleansing." This included gathering up Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and other groups they considered inferior and put them into prision. Millions were killed either in the gas chamber, by disease, exposure to harsh weather, starvation, or even the result of cruel "medical experiments." Though the Holocaust had many more deaths some of the conditions in Internment camps were unbearable. Since most of the camps were located in the desert, people were faced with harsh mperatures. The average summer temperatures were over 100 degrees. The winter was no better, tempertures even fell to -30 degrees.
After the Japanese were let out of the camps, many returned to the Pacific Coast. New lives were started and the people tried to forget what happened. Because Many of them lost there land when they were forced to the camps, they tried to regain what they had lost. In 1948, Congress finally agreed to pay for some of the lost property.
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