Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

by Elizabeth Partridge

But while American and Nazi concentration camps were vastly different, both fit the definition: Concentration camps are places where large numbers of civilians are imprisoned, usually in harsh conditions, without a trial. These people are imprisoned due to some aspect of their identity, such as their race, religion, or political party.