“There is MUCH MORE to the story of Japanese internment during WW2 than the Left allows us to know.
They have re-written the history”
Only those born in Japan (Issei - first genration) were forcibly interred - as were those from Germany and Italy.
Unlike Germans and Italians though, areas with high Japanese-American populations (West Coast) were ordered cleared of all Japanese by the military. Many second generation (Nisei) Japanese-Americans had to leave their homes and jobs in short order. They were allowed to live at the internment camps for the duration of the war, with free housing, food medical care and education for the kids. They could move away if they chose, instead of going to a camp, but most had nowhere else to go. Nisei could also go off Post to work, if they could find jobs.
Unlike Germans and Italians, Japanese could not blend in, and were subject to racial violence (many German Americans Anglicized their surnames during WWI and WWII).
Unlike the Germans or Italians, the Japanese basically killed all the Americans in Japan after the war broke out. During the war, the widespread atrocities committed by Japanese forces against prisoners and civilians were far beyond comparison to anything committed by the German or Italian military (SS Death Camps being outside the normal national military - the SS was a paramilitary of the Nazi Party). The steady stream of horrific atrocities by the Japanese (ISIS on steroids) put Japanese on the streets of America in real jeopardy.
A point that the court seems to have overlooked, was that the enemy in WWII had declared it specifically a race war. The German “Master Race” theory of the Nazis is well known, but the Japanese “Master Race of Asia” was firmly grounded in the Shinto Religion, as well as in political ideology. The whole Japanese race was viewed as descended from the sun god Amaterasu (the sun represented on the flag), with the divine emperor being Amaterasu’s representative on Earth.
“Unlike Germans and Italians, Japanese could not blend in, and were subject to racial violence.”
THANKS! My history on this is not that complete, but I did hear the above.
But Jeeze, hard to believe what that country turned into...and especially compared to what they are now!
Thank you for that perspective: very valuable.
My wife’s grandfather was German and earned his citizenship by joining the military and fighting in the Spanish American War. During WWI his family’s house was burned down. He was fired from his job and the family nearly starved to death including my wife’s mother who was a toddler at the time. After the war they were able to move to another community and start over.
My wife’s grandfather loved the United States and would not allow German to be spoken in the house. The dark period was never spoken of either.
The people who did this to the family were provoked by propaganda that came directly from government sources. Anyone who objected was detained or worse. Somehow liberals do not ever remember this or the actions taken against Germans and Italians during WWII. It does not quite fit the narrative.