What is an internment camp?

Question

I really know what one is, but why during world war 2 did people get sent back to one if they escaped and went back totheir mother country?

I am talking about soldiers caught in neutral territory and held in camps like Ireland - Americans, Canadians, English and German. The English would return their soldier to Ireland if he escaped and showed up in say London!
That is my question - Why?

Answer 1

What you are talking about is one of the rights of neutral countries, to keep combatants from any belligerents confined, since it might bee seen by one side as supporting the other. Many nations have treaties with countries likely to be neutral which guard the neutrality, including between former Commonwealth nations and the Crown.

Answer 2

During the Second World War, persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast were sent to internment camps. This was done shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Many people feared that an attack on the West Coast, particularly San Francisco and Los Angeles, was a real possibility, and it was thought by some (including California's Governor, Earl Warren) that persons of Japanese ancestry would aid the enemy in carrying out the attack and occupation. Needless to say, this is a somewhat controversial part of the U.S. history.

Answer 3

Hey dude, you're either funny and/or you're just testing people to see if they can see the difference in your question? An Internment Camp is: a camp where persons (prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined. If a prisoner of war escaped and caught, they were brought back to the prison camp to be tortured and sometimes killed. Another time they were used as collateral for the release of someone of more importance; themselves or a group of people.

Answer 4

If they went back to their mother country, they were not brought back to the United States. If they escaped, there were two options: (1) death or (2) returned to the camp. At that time, anyone who spoke a foreign language (fluently) was considered a spy or had the ability to become one-for either mother country or the United States.

Answer 5

My best guess is that the authorities of the mother country might have seen them as a possible threat. Beyond that, I have no idea. British soldiers who managed to escape German prison certainly were not sent to such camps, and neither were Americans. So, what is it that you have heard that brought up this question?

Answer 6

an internment camp was a camp that is employed to hold and contain a group of people for a period of time seperate from the rest of society.
They were used in the 1940's in the west coast of the US during WWII. They did not want to call them concentration camps, and the people in them were almost all of asian decent. The reason for this was to keep possible spies, and people with close ties to japan from having contact or aiding them in the fight in WWII. As the war was over, the people were allowed to return back home, with no criminal prosectuions.

Answer 7

During WWII, many Japanese on American soil, whether citizens or not, were treated poorly by their neighbors and communities, because of Pearl Harbor. Both as a safety measure for law-abiding, US-Loyal Japanese, and as a way to take those who were non-loyal to the US out of mainstream society, all Japanese Americans, or Japanese on American soil were placed in camps where they lived until the war with Japan was over. I grew up next door to a Japanese American family and heard many stories of life in the camps. It wasn't pleasant, that's for sure. However, before they'd been interred, they endured house fires and beatings by their neighbors, who were afraid they might be Japanese spies. They went gratefully to the interrment camp for safety... They weren't grateful for the lean-living and poor conditions while they were there, but they were grateful for their safety.

Answer 8

Some countries believed these people had been comprimised and mey be returned as spies

Answer 9

It is where most people go to learn how to be a better intern. Not so much arts and crafts but the real hand on stuff.

Answer 10

example:ok back in the day when the u.s. was at war with germany they sent germans to internment camps because they thought they were spies.