During it’s time, World War II affected different races in either positive or negative ways. Germans were demonized by the U.S, as were the Japanese; Jewish people suffered mass genocide. In contrast, African Americans were treated equally even though the U.S army was segregated, and women also had more opportunities by helping with the war and government work. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were hated by Americans and the Americans were hated by the Japanese. Politically racist propaganda posters encouraged us to hate Japan and supported the belief that they were all evil. Japanese Americans (Japanese immigrants living in America) were sent to camps to live in for their protection to prevent being harassed or assaulted on streets. Conditions were bad, but not the worst.
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This had a negative effect on Jewish people and others who weren’t considered a part of the “Master Race”. They would be sent off to live in concentration camps, to be tortured or killed in gas chambers. Before the gas chamber would be prepped, the victim would have their hair cut, then be sent off to their death. This detail was discovered in a note by a Jewish Polish man, also a survivor of the Holocaust, who told a story about how he used to cut the hair of people before they went to be killed in the
This had a negative effect on Jewish people and others who weren’t considered a part of the “Master Race”. They would be sent off to live in concentration camps, to be tortured or killed in gas chambers. Before the gas chamber would be prepped, the victim would have their hair cut, then be sent off to their death. This detail was discovered in a note by a Jewish Polish man, also a survivor of the Holocaust, who told a story about how he used to cut the hair of people before they went to be killed in the