LS101 Lecture Notes - Ernst Zündel, James Keegstra, Japanese Canadians
Document Summary
Hate propaganda section 318: ernst zundel german immigrant, anti-semitic, holocaust denier, charged with spreading false news because of a pamphlet he produced called did 6 million really die?". Japanese canadians and world war ii: put in internment camps and their property was confiscated. Japan after pearl harbour, there was overt prosecution of japanese. Canadians (was justified by the war measures act: were evacuated from coastal bc, arbitrarily detained in camps and forcibly relocated (e. g. to places where there were labour shortages, discarded from labour jobs when no longer needed. After pearl harbour: fishing boats impounded some japanese were becoming very prosperous with fishing boats. Canada and had never even been to japan. Security and the post-9/11 era: national security, arab/muslim canadians, many of these policies have an american root to them, almost like the russian witch-hunts" mccarthiasm. Information obtained from torture victims is extremely unreliable.