I agree. They called the general who put all those Japanese Americans in camps in California a hard core racist. We had no clue what was going to happen. Why is that always brought up? ...were they lined up and shot as happened to prisoners in some Japanese prison camps? Sad thing is, this is what they teach about WWII in school along with how disastrous it was for America to drop the atomic bombs. They are not told how many American lives would be lost if Japan had to be invaded by U.S. ground forces.
Well, he was. The treatment of Italians on the west coast was pretty bad, too. Somehow the US managed to do just fine without treating east coast Italians (a much larger population much closer to Italy) or Hawaiian Japanese (a much larger population much closer to Japan) in the same way.