Atrocities and genocide
Japanese Internment
internment is the state of being confined as a prisoner especially for political or military reasons
other words that may be used are relocation centers
more than 66% of japanese americans sent to the camps were born in the US and never had been to japan
japanese americans that fought in WW1 were also sent to the camps
there were 10 japanese internment camps in the US located in remote areas in 7 US states
The camps has tarpaper barracks for housing, mess halls and schools
adults could work for $5 dollars a day
camps would be located in areas difficult to farm in
the holocaust
how did we get here
january 30th
hitler becomes chancellor
march 22 1933
first concentration camp is made
april 1st 1933
nazis proclaim a boycott of all of the jewish owned buissneses
april 7th 1933
law for the restoration of the professional civil service and jewish people were banned from civil service and from practice of law
april 25 1933
jewish people are not allowed in schools due to "overpopulation"
april 26 1933
gestapo secret state police of nazi germany is established
may 10th 1933
the burning of jewish books happens
nuremberg laws
the law for the protection of german blood and german honor
the reich citizenship law
stripped jewish people of their citizenship and introduced a new distinction between reich citizens and nationals (all of the germans other than jews were classed as reich citizens until 1945)
forbade marriage or relations between jews and citizens of the german law and also they could not display the flag or colors of germany
The yellow star
jewish people in europe were forced to wear a yellow star intended to humiliate
Indoctrination
it taught children to learn that one way is the right way by repitition
you had to join a hitler youth program by 17
they would teach that america and big countries were going down the drain because of democracy and democracy was a political system run by jews
definitions
euphemism
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt