All I meant was that the US "concentrated" various individuals into areas (camps). And I do know that the reason behind the concentrating of these individuals was not the same as the reason it was done it Germany. But remember that the Germans called the camps "resettlement camps" and that is pretty much what the US was calling them as well.
And I doubt that the Japanese Americans saw the distinction between "internment" and "concentration" or "resettlement" They just knew that their freedom had been taken away and I am sure they were terrified of life in those camps.
Again, the word was been misused and a new definition has taken the place of any other definition. I have mentioned before that commune has become the hated communism. Life in a commune or communal living was never originally meant as a world scourge. In fact it was just the opposite, the gathering together of those who would live in peace and interact with each other peacefully while helping one another "each to his own ability".
My original post was just an exercise in the corruption of words and symbols and our inability to remember what the original purpose of the word was.
I am not, of course, condoning anything that was done either in Germany of in the US.
This all started with a picture of Nicholas beside a car that had a swastika as a hood ornament. A symbol which, in Nicholas's time, meant only love, life, light and luck. The four arms of the swastika are four of the letter "L" turned to connect to each other.
The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix.
Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.
Some cultures in the past had differentiated between the clockwise swastika and the counter-clockwise sauvastika. In these cultures the swastika symbolized health and life while the sauvastika took on a mystical meaning of bad-luck or misfortune.
But since the Nazis use of the swastika, some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings of the swastika by varying its direction - trying to make the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika mean hate and death while the counter-clockwise version would hold the ancient meaning of the symbol, life and good-luck.
