[Chgogal]

Ah, but the editors allowed the Japanese American to point blank call the American detention camps “concentration camps”. Words are important.

[SuziQ]

Ah, but the editors allowed the Japanese American to point blank call the American detention camps “concentration camps”. Words are important.

I'm sure that's exactly how those interned thought of them. But the viewer can see, quite easily, that there was no comparison among the three, since the Japanese camps, and their treatment of prisoners is discussed quite plainly. I'm sure the German's treatment of their prisoners will be covered in later episodes.

One comment, by an understandably biased source, will not change the facts of the war.

[af_vet_rr]

Ah, but the editors allowed the Japanese American to point blank call the American detention camps “concentration camps”. Words are important.

Context is just as important as the words used.

After all, I've heard several older folks use the term "concentration camps" when referring to Japanese Americans during WWII.

My dad still calls them concentration camps as a matter of fact, and he said many folks back then called them that, because, as he put it, "until the Germans came along, that's what we called them. After the war, everybody acted like we had to call them something else".

He jokes that the people who would get on to him for saying "concentration camp" were the first PC Police, and this was back in the '50s.