World war 2 help?

Question

ok so im suppose to do an essay on an a specific person or a specific event on world war 2. 5 pages so i did some research and i wanna do it on concentration camps. if i do it on nazi camps and japan camps does it still connect? cause just doing it on nazi camps is pretty much only 3 pages of work and so if i added the japanesse camps which might add like a few pages you think its good cause i dont want to turn it in and not even get credit. cause my rubric says a SPECIFIC EVENT and im doing it on concentration camps. so what do you all think?

Answer 1

I'm not sure ... the camps were not an _event_; they were an on-going _element_. I would argue that there is a difference. And event would be something like the London Blitz, or the bombing of Dresden.

Answer 2

I have to agree with a previous poster that said you haven't done much research if all you can get are 2-3 pages on Nazi concentration camps. There is a myriad of directions you could take a paper like that:
1) Comparison/contrast between extermination camps and labor camps.
2) Timelines showing methods of executions used in the death camps, showing how the Nazis became more 'efficient' in extermination.
3) Scientific experimentation (I remember a trip I once took to Dachau, and the exhibits in the museum there covering the experiments on twins, for example).
4) The political reasons for the genesis of concentration camps.
5) Nationalities and ethnic groups that were imprisoned.

The subjects are unlimited - and entire books have been written about the subject and each of the sub-areas listed above.

Answer 3

1) The Nazi camps and Japanese camps served two completely different purposes, as previous respondents have stated, so I would automatically reject your paper if you tried to say they were connected.

2) You haven't done enough research if you think a paper on Nazi Concentration Camps would only take up about three pages. Same would be said about Japanese POW Camps.

3) And, as previous respondents have mentioned, neither of those papers would be addressing a SPECIFIC EVENT.

So if you would like to stay within the confines of your original research but actually write about an EVENT, might I suggest you look into one of the following:
--the Bataan Death March (the forced march of American soldiers who had been captured by the Japanese on the island of Bataan)
--the true story of the man behind "Schindler's List"
--or, the Allied liberation of any one of the German Concentration Camps

Answer 4

Wether or not the camps where in any way related is irelevant since they where not events they where facets of war itself. the japanese camps contained POWs. they served the purpose of detaiing enemy combatants. thus they are still used even today. The Nazi camps where for the extermination of civilians. there where very few jewish soldiers who ever lived long enough to see a camp.

Now on the other hand if you wanted to write about the liberation of one of the camps or how in sobiebor (forgive the spelling but I can't spell in about 3 languages) polish camp the detained people overthrew the gaurds and escaped, that would be a specific event. granted it is a byproduct of the war but it still happened during the war so I would give you credit if I was your teacher.

Answer 5

The two concentration camps do have similarities, but the Nazi camps systematically eradicate the Jews while the Japanese camps only make them do forced labour, that is one major difference you will have to face when writing about them.

Actually, the two camps do not constitute a specific event unless you write about how they treat their prisoners-of-war because the camps are different in nature despite whatever similarities they have.

Answer 6

the German camps are more popular than the Japanesse camps so I think it would be interesting to do an essay with that that subject.

Answer 7

altho the german camps are more obvious to most yes the japs had concentration camps not only on jap soil but on various other isles of south pacific includein guam the phillippines.okinowa so you should be able to include this with german camps

Answer 8

yes, they do connect...no one likes that idea, it is not popular, but there were similarities.