That’s a bunch of PBS bullshit. America did not have concentration camps. We had relocation centers. Some German and Italians were also detained. And not all Japanese descendants were detained.
People love to act like America just lost her mind one day and there wasn’t the slightest reason to doubt their loyalty.
Look up the Niihau incident.
A Zero attacking Pearl Harbor was damaged and couldn’t make it back to the carrier. The Hawaiian island of Niihau was the designated emergency landing point and pilots were supposed to land there and wait for submarines. He made an emergency landing and was treated very well by the local Hawaiian people, but they could not speak Japanese, and had no idea that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. There was a local Japanese family that lived there for decades and was part of the community. Just normal good neighbors. They were used for translators and to host the pilot.
The pilot told them what had happened and without hesitation they provided him with guns and joined him in taking the Hawaiians prisoner.
This went on for a few days until a big Hawaiian and his wife managed to surprise and overpower him along with his wife, and broke the Jap’s back on a rock wall. They two locals who helped him fled and hid. The big Samoan was decorated by the US government.
This incident sent shockwaves among the highest levels in DC. The thing that concerned them was how fast Japanese immigrants who were regarded as good community members and had lived here for decades immediately moved to assist Japan.
It was a war for survival, not a war of convenience like you see these days. It’s wrong to compare what our relocation centers were, where in Sam emergency, we interned people of suspected foreign loyalty to the Nazi concentration camps.
A look at the disloyalties rampant among the 2 million moslems Bush and Obama flooded in after 9/11 proves that the concept was not far fetched. We laugh at it today, and it’s a sort of comedy. But in 1941 with our fleet a smoking ruin and we were on the run everywhere, there was actual work that the Jap fleet might show up off of California. We were preparing for an eminent attack.
And I predict eventually in Europe, Erdogan and Turkey will make their move to reclaim The Ottoman Empire, and almost every Muslim in Europe, even the “moderate” ones, will support it.
Well stated.
> People love to act like America just lost her mind one day and there wasn’t the slightest reason to doubt their loyalty. <
Yep. But there really was credible evidence of spying, and FDR chose not to ignore it. That’s what you do when you’re in a life-or-death struggle.
Take a look at this article.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/22/us/1941-cables-boasted-of-japanese-american-spying.html
That’s a bunch of PBS bullshit. America did not have concentration camps. We had relocation centers. Some German and Italians were also detained. And not all Japanese descendants were detained.
The same happened in Japan with our citizens.
There were exchanges during the war.
The reality is that there were a lot of Jap traitors who would have been infiltrators, such as Mr. Sulu, back then. I know he was only a kid, but does anybody really think Mr. Sulu would turn in his Jap brethren who wanted to attack this country after he spent his adult life bashing, bitching, whining and feeling sorry for himself? Hell...he may even side with the hated Chinese against the U.S.vgiven the chance!
Point being that Japanese were forced to sell their stuff and go to these camps.
In most cases they had a week to do so,
Look at what is happening in Australia where they have built a huge camp for those who do not get the vac. as ORDERED.
I have heard camps are being built here too.