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The Crucible and Modern Witch Hunts
Summary: Essay provides a comparison of Japanese internment and the Holocaust to the Salem Witch Trials.
During the spring and summer of 1942, the United States Government carried out, in remarkably short time and without serious incident, one of the largest controlled migrations in history. This was the movement of 110,000 people of Japanese descent from their homes in an area bordering the Pacific coast into 10 wartime communities constructed in remote areas. The evacuation of these people started in 1942. At that time, the invasion of the west coast was a possibility, the Western Defense decided to remove all people with Japanese ancestry. Within a couple weeks, both American-born and alien Japanese residents were moved from the entire State of California, the western part of Oregon and Washington, and the southern part of Arizona.
The vision of the Nazi Party was that the superior race will dominate and the inferior races will be removed. Hitler believed that the Jews were not real people, but animals. They were...
This section contains 399 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |