Allied Concentration Camps

The term “concentration camp” is today used almost exclusively in the context of the camps operated by the Third Reich. Yet the Germans were not unique in locking up members of their civilian populace in mass internment camps. The Allied powers did likewise, although with a happier outcome for the inmates: their captors won the war. For German concentration camps see under “Holocaust” & Final Solution.

Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer and American Racism, by Richard Drinnon. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1987, 339 pp., $24.95. ISBN 0-520-05793-7. With the exception of the few months in which Milton Eisenhower ran the program, Dillon S. Meyer, a typical New Deal bureaucrat, was the chief administrator …

In a 180-degree turnaround, Gov. George Deukmejian has signed a bill authorizing a $750,000 grant for a Japanese-American history museum planned for an historic Buddhist temple in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Only a few months ago, Deukmejian had cut the $750,000 grant from the state budget. The …

I. Pre-Pearl Harbor The sad saga of civil liberties in the United States during the Second World War begins well before Pearl Harbor. The popular impression is that the Japanese surprise attack in December 1941 caught the U.S. government totally unaware. In an effort to counter this impression, countless Revisionist …

In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War Two and the War on Terror, by Michelle Malkin. Regnery, Washington, DC, 2004. 376pp. Michelle Malkin is a conservative columnist and blogger who, since 9-11, has become a strident advocate of enhanced scrutiny of foreigners in the United …

I was born August 31, 1924 in Berlin. When the National Socialists came to power, I was eight years old. From 1930 until 1940 I attended school in Berlin. I did not join the Hitler Youth, but suffered no disadvantages because of that. At age twelve I became an altar …

On December 23, 1991, President George H. W. Bush issued proclamation 6398 to recognize National Ellis Island Day. His proclamation began: “The ethnic diversity that we so proudly celebrate in the United States mirrors our rich heritage as a Nation of immigrants. ‘Here is not merely a Nation,’ wrote Walt …

. Responsabilità sovietiche e degli alleati nello scoppio del conflitto. (tratto dal 1° numero di "Uomo Libero" del 01-01-1980, di Piero Sella) ... Sospette, perché superficiali e ingiustificatamente benevole, ci appaiono le interpretazioni del comportamento sovietico per gli anni 39-41. L'Unione Sovietica viene per lo più presentata come potenza aggredita, …

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