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.
By Jim Rizoli ∙ October 23, 2021
The Japanese Internment Camps Jim Rizoli, of rizolitv.com shows a TV programme, which deals with the imprisonment of about 100,000 US citizens of Japanese descent after Pearl Harbor. The Japanese-American population was rooted out and very quickly sent to camps.The programme shows the treatment of the imprisoned, their fates in concentration camps, the conditions of…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ October 1, 2012
On December 23, 1991, President George H. W. Bush issued proclamation 6398 to recognize National Ellis Island Day. His proclamation began:[1] “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 Whitman, ‘but a teeming nation…
By Werner Wilhelm Laska ∙ July 1, 1990
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 boy at a Catholic church…
By John P. Strang ∙ July 1, 1988
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 of the WRA, the “War…
By Jeffrey Rogers Hummel ∙ October 1, 1986
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 historians have raked over the…
By Lou A. Rollins ∙ December 1, 1985
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 bill, authored by State Senator…
By David Wilson ∙ August 1, 2009
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 States, particularly those of Muslim…
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