Internment Camps were camps created by the United States government to house Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes and forced into camps, for the government feared some were spies for the Japanese Empire.
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Americans of Japanese ancestry was no longer questioned.
People were forced to leave their homes and businesses and made to live in concentration camps.
Depending on which War. Any evacuees after the War were returned to their place of origin, at least by the Allies. The Communists treated them terribly and many were sent to interment camps for reeducation and slave labor.
== == The following are the types of camps that were used in the Holocaust: * "Concentration camps" is the generic term for the prison camps maintained by the Third Reich. * "Labor camps" were those that were maintained for the purpose of exploiting slave labor. * "Extermination camps" were six camps located in Poland where the mass murder of Jews and others took place. Many of the concentration camps were complexes of several camps and some had dual functions. At the Auschwitz complex, for example, most of the genocide took place in a subcamp called Birkenau. There was also a labor camp named Monowitz that was part of the complex where an artificial rubber plant was built. Likewise, Treblinka, another extermination camp, was part of a complex of three camps, two of which were used for slave labor.
There were many camps in many countries in World War 2. The most infamous ones were the Nazi ran concentration camps. Many Jews were sent there and died. Other groups were sent there as well, such as gypsies and gays. In the United States, there were Japanese interment camps after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Although the conditions were much better than the Nazi camps, it was still considered to be a major civil rights violation. Those that were interned later received court ordered restitution for their losses, as well as $20K each for the abuse of their civil rights.