Japanese Internment Camps“Sometimes I wonder if anyone will ever understand what I mean, if anyone will ever overlook my ingratitude and not care whether I'm Jewish or not and just see me as a teenager in desperate need of some good fun.” (p. 153-154) or page 124? Website?There is a strong similarity between the German government who used concentration camps to imprison Jews and the United States government who interned Japanese Americans. For the Americans, it was thought that all Japanese citizens could be potential spies and attack the United States. In the United States, the United States created internment camps and held Japanese families captive. In Germany it was believed that the Germans were an elite and that the Jewish people had made them lose the First World War. The Germans created concentration camps and held Jews and Poles hostage. Both governments not only imprisoned those they deemed a threat to their causes, but more importantly oppressed the rights of a specific targeted group of citizens (Kent). This oppression can be best illustrated by reading a first-hand account so that people can understand the real-life circumstances of people who were imprisoned by the government during the war, such as the Diary of Anne Frank. Before World War II, in the Netherlands and the United States, the Jewish population in the Netherlands and Japanese Americans had the same rights as those of other citizens of other nationalities living in their respective countries. Both nationalities had families, had paid work and had a place to live. They could vote, had government representation and were integral members of society (Cooper). During the war, governments detained and imprisoned these same citizens. Hello... middle of the paper... imprison, interne or execute thousands of innocent people in the name of war. Make sure all your sources are cited. Add 1 citation to each paragraph, 3 body paragraphs need more than 1 source http://www.holocausthistory.net/Bibliography Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. and James D. Houston. Goodbye to Manzanar. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000. Print.Alonso, Karen. Korematsu v. United States: Japanese-American internment camps. Springfield, NJ: Enslow, 1998. Print.Cooper, Michael L. Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II. New York: Clarion, 2000. Print. Sinnott, Susan. Our Burden of Shame: Japanese-American Internment During World War II. New York: F. Watts, 1995. Print.Kent, Deborah. The tragic history of Japanese-American internment camps. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Pub., 2008. Print.