[goodnesswins]

I understand the internment part....although not including the Germans WAS odd....but they should not have taken their property from them, as some did (Orchards). Those assets should have been returned. On the other hand, at least the Japanese had their LIVES to live from then on, my husbands Uncle LOST his LIFE fighting in WWII, and had nothing.

[aristeides]

Actually, German and Italian aliens whose disloyalty was known (from sources that could be revealed) were interned in 1942, just as Japanese aliens of whom the same was true were as well.

The bulk of the Japanese were relocated, as opposed to interned, away from the West Coast. There never was any military necessity to relocate Germans and Italians away from particular locations of the same sort that the intelligence indicated for Japanese from the West Coast.

[meia]

On the other hand, at least the Japanese had their LIVES to live from then on, my husbands Uncle LOST his LIFE fighting in WWII, and had nothing.

Not ALL the Japanese had their LIVES to live from then on. A LOT of Japanese ALSO lost their LIVES fighting for our country.

[aristeides]

Actually, the interned and relocated Japanese did receive compensation for their property from the federal government in the late 40's.

[CasearianDaoist]

They did include Germans (and Italians.) 36,000 were interned, of those 14,000 were Japanese. At the outbreak of the war 12,000 Japanese renounced their US citizenship. This was so unprecedented they had to change the law to allow them to do it. Most of the interned Japanese were from this group. This whole Japanese internment business is yet another Leftist hoax built out of half truths and distortions, Do you really think that there were only 14,000 Japanese citizens in 1940?

[thedugal]

Your husband's uncle died fighting for freedom. The interned lost their freedom. When you trivialize the interment of US citizens you disolve the very substance for which WWII vets fought and died.