During World War II in Germany there were concentration camps that imprisoned thousands of people because they were not "the perfect human being" in Adolf Hitler's terms. In the United States, concentrated primarily in the West, there were camps that held Japanese Americans. Punish them for something they had nothing to do with. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked an American naval base at Pearl Harbor, near the Hawaiian island of Honolulu. The attack destroyed “nearly 20 American warships, including eight huge battleships, and nearly 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died in the attack and another 1,000 were injured” (“Pearl Harbor”). The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war. The Japanese InvasionInternment, according to vocabulary.com means "to place a person in prison or other detention, usually in times of war" ("Internment"). A concentration camp, however, is defined as “a guarded facility for the detention or imprisonment of foreigners, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., in particular any camp established by the Nazis before and during the World War.” II for the confinement and persecution of prisoners” (dictionary.com). Residents of internment camps had jobs, were fed, children went to school, and guards didn't kill anyone for the fun of it. To summarize, prisoners were treated like human beings. George Takei describes the internment camps as “prison camps, with sentry towers, machine guns pointed at us, in some of the most desolate places in this country” (George Takei). The only connection I found between the concentration camps and the internment camps was the way they got there, via the railroad. As Takei recalls, “leaving home in a train car with sentries, armed soldiers at both ends of the car, sitting on wooden benches. And every time we approached a city, we were forced to draw the curtains, the shade. We were not supposed to be seen by the people out there" (George Three were upheld on appeal by the court, while only one case won. The first upheld case was Hirabayashi v. United States in 1943. Gordon Hirabayashi was born in Washington state. He defied the curfew of 'internment, was "arrested and convicted of two counts, one for violating General DeQitt's curfew order, and two, for failing to register at a screening center to prepare for departure to an assembly center '” (“Court Challenges”). Second case challenging the curfew orders was Minoru Yasai, another American-born citizen. The Supreme Court declared the President and Congress “had appropriately used the power of war under the Constitution" ("Court Challenges"), therefore, upholding their beliefs. The case of Fred Korematsu, a California native, upheld barring laws. In this case, "Judge Murphy stated that the exclusion orders violated citizens' rights to due process of law” (“Court Challenges”). However, “[in issuing the eviction ruling, the Supreme Court avoided the internment ruling” (“Appeal to the Court”). In 1942, a woman named Mitsuye Endo was released because the Supreme Court had ruled that "Endo 'should be given her liberty' and released from custody, as her loyalties were clearly established" ("Court