Lost River Camps

What is the significance in knowing the similarities between the Japanese Internment and Holocaust Camps?

Both of these camps where during World War 2. I need to know what the significance of knowing the basics about each one and how they relate to eachother.

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1. the signifigance is that the Japanese internment camps were done in our own country, mostly in Californai and other West coast areas, thus showing that people are capable of being insensitive and not recognizing acts of human rights violations even in their own midst therefore we must be constantly vigilant that what we do is not harming others' rights please keep in mind that after the bombing of Pearl Harbor American military was pretty sure that a Japanese invasion would happen next & only American naval vistories over the next year prevented that occurrence
2. The significance is that the Japanese Internment camps were in our country while we were saying that the Germans were evil for having their Holocaust camp. This shows that we were almost calling the kettle black for many of the people that were in the Japanese camps lost everything, as did the Jews. Hope this helps! <3
3. The labor camps and extermination camps in Europe were on a much larger scale than the camps in the US. A much larger population was affected. (Not that the 110,000 Japanese Americans didn't count for anything, but the millions that were imprisoned & killed in Europe is a horrifying number) The camps in the US were just as shameful in the fact that the government was interring its own citizens, like some governments in Europe let their own citizens be sent off to the camps. The Japanese Americans were also deprived of their businesses and houses, as was the cae in Europe. Some of the camps were located out in harsh areas, where they had to live in poor conditions & bad weather. But the difference is the evolution of the camp system in Europe versus the camps in the US. The camps in Europe started small, as a way to contain political prisoners (which could be actual criminals or partisans or 'enemies of the state' which began to be mostly Jews). The way the system grew and spread into a project of mass extermination, developing new technologies and ways to efficiently kill hundreds of thousands of people, that is a huge difference from the camps in the states. The Nazis were also intent on destroying any 'subhumans', to keep Europe and their 'Thousand Year Reich' pure. After the attack on Pearl harbor, the US was afraid its own Japanese citizens may be siding with the enemy, and wanted to keep them under watch. Obviously the Japanese were released later, but I cant imagine that if Germany had won the war, that the Nazis would've have kept the camps going - the profits were too good for those running them.
4. Japanese camps were not established for extermination although many may have died there. whereas the ones for the Holocaustwas for the purpose of murdering people or working them so they would die /