my brother was talking about concentration camps in the USA. i have looked up a lot of info on the internet a

Question

don't really know what to think about it. what do you guys think about this? is it for real or is it just a bunch of guys posting fraudulent information? i mean, one of the pictures showed a sign in RUSSIAN.

i know about the japanese camps. i mean the camps supposedly being built for the citizens of the USA.

Answer 1

There were many in the US. Here is an article and list of them.
http://www.angelfire.com/music2/fullcircle/con1.html

Answer 2

I don't know about Russians, but it's pretty well-known, at least where I live, that there were detention camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII. One was not too far away. Fearing these American citizens (many American-born) would side with the land of their ancestry, Japanese-Americans (esp. in CA) were forcefully stripped of their property and sent to detention areas. These camps did not compare with the Nazi death camps in Europe for inhumanity, but a prison is a prison. They were still required to pledge allegiance to the flag that stood for liberty and justice. When they were finally released at the end of the war, they had no homes to return to.

So yes, I think some of it is true. This is how I feel about it. I believe in all the principles that the U.S. was founded on, and I hold loyalty to my country on those grounds. But even we Americans aren't perfect. Sometimes we're fearful and reationary too. Hopefully, if we're more aware of it, we can keep it to a minimum.

Answer 3

During World War II the government rounded up Japanese citizens and place them in concentration camps. Often, because these folks were taken abruptly, and not allowed communication with the outside world, and had no jobs, they lost everything.

These were citizens, not illegal aliens.

I also believe that others were taken, including some Germans and Russians, although this was to a lesser extent since these people were Caucasion and not so easily identifiable.

Answer 4

I am not sure that we called them concentration camps. That name brings ones mind the Nazi concentration camps.

We had many POW camps in the US during WWII. Near where I live we had many German POW's. The camp didn't even have fences. The area was so remote they would of died long before they were able to find another town or road. Plus most of them ended up working on locals farms and some even stayed after the war was over.

Answer 5

I have read about and seen documentaries about the Holocaust Concentration Camps during WWII but there are no camps at this time anywhere in the world that come close to them.

However, there are refugee camps in countries where there are factions that are at war with each other and these are displaced people. It might apply to the folks that are displaced right now in New Orleans.

Answer 6

He probably meant the Internment Camps used during WWII, like Manzanar outside Los Angeles. Japanese-American citizens were kept there during the war because it was feared they were spies. However, these were not concentration camps. No one was gassed to death or shot in the internment camps, albeit they were humiliated and discriminated against because of their nationality.

Answer 7

Yes, it is for real. During WWII Japanese American were interned in "relocation camps" or "internment camps" because they were of Japanese ancestry, despite the fact that many of them had never been in Japan in their lives. The camps were not the kind of death camps that the Germans were infamous for, but they were still bad enough that the US government paid the survivors for their pain and suffering fifty years later.

Answer 8

Is he talking about the Japanese camps during WW2? It's for real, but it's sort of like the US's dirty little secret so no one talks about it much. The Japanese are too polite I suppose, to be ripping the US a new one for their horrible treatment, so it's been pretty much swept under the rug. I know we never talked about it in US History in either high school OR my college classes.

Answer 9

Google Halliburton.
No bid contracts awarded to a subsidiary of Halliburton for the construction of Detention camps.

It's not just a rumor. It's true.
I'm glad I'm not an American in these times...

Answer 10

Japanese were put into camps during WWII, but they were not concentration camps