HIST 2057 Chapter : Japanese Americans And WWII
Document Summary
Most people feared all japanese in the us. Eventually orders everyone out of military zone. No place for them to go: the american way , war relocation authority, camps to contain japanese and japanese americans, basically pow camps, 120,000 in camps, 2/3 = american citizens, 10 different camps. Remote places far removed from cities: called relocation centers. Give the message that these were not. Concentration camps like germany or pow camps like in japan. Mainly because they could not justify these people as prisoners of war (withholding american citizens because of ancestry) Presented them as new communities japanese immigrants decided to move into: reality prison camps. Younger generation had never been there, not. Older generation would end up being a citizen of no country. Idea that all of their rights were taken away and the only right was to serve in the armed forces was against democracy and ideals of the united.
