How could the United States let millions of innocent people be starved, brutalized, and discriminated like they were in World War II? Easily, they did not want to get involved. The US stayed neutral in WWII until the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was bombed by the Japanese on December 07, 1941.
             During World War II millions of Jews died in concentration camps. Concentration Camps are places where selected groups of people are restrained and are under cruel conditions, usually for political reasons and under inhumane conditions. They are also large detention centers created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war.
             In Germany, the Nazis established concentration camps almost immediately after assuming power on January 30, 1933. The security police had the authority to arrest anyone and to commit that person to a camp for an unclear period. The political police, known as the Gestapo, imposed "protective custody" on a wide variety of political opponents: Communists, socialists, religious dissenters, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Jews. The Schutzstaffel, or protective units operated the camps with brutal military discipline. During the 1930s six major camps were established: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, and, for women, Ravensbrück. In 1939 these camps held about 25,000 prisoners.
             During World War II the camps increased in size and number. Important new ones included Auschwitz-Birkenau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Lublin-Majdanek, Hinzert, Vught, Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. Millions of prisoners entered these camps from every occupied country of Europe: Jews, partisans, Soviet prisoners of war, and impressed foreign laborers. Early in 1942 the SS Central Office for Economy and Administration assumed operational control of the concentration camps, and inm...