Posted on 12/28/2017 3:30:57 PM PST by Bull Snipe
It concerns me when a FReeper conflates the WW2 internment of Japanese and Japanese citizens with foreign death camps where folks were sent explicitly to die, or meant to die en rote.
There is no comparison between the two, except for the fence.
one other comparison exists. A few Japanese Americans were shot and killed trying to escape from those camps. So, your opinion is that because we are Americans, it ok to toss 100,000 citizens in camps because they are of Japanese ancestry.
It is my opinion that those people were seen as mortal threats to our country during a time of war.
We did not machine gun anyone as policy. The commies did, in droves. Piles and piles of bodies.
Why not the millions of American citizens of German or Italian descent, why did you think they were not a “mortal threat to our country” during a time of war.
They're not too far apart. In 1938, Walter Krivitsky, author of the bestseller In Stalin's Secret Service: An Exposé of Russia's Secret Policies by the Former Chief of the Soviet Intelligence in Western Europe (New York: Harper, 1939). told Whittaker Chambers that Bolshevism was a form of fascism.
Similarities are obvious but it doesn’t change the fact that the bloodiest of all military conflicts in history was between Nazi and Communists.
FDR only interred Japanese on the West coast, not nationwide, and we also interred many thousands of Germans and Italians that were perceived as possible loyalty threats.
Thanks, don’t remember this thread very well. It was posted Dec 2017.
Lol, it is always a little weird to be pinged on an old thread.
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