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Why US government believed it was necessary to place Japanese americans in internment camps?
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Damon
They assumed that since they were Japanese in ancestry they might help the enemy Japan. It turned out to be nonsense.
{ My story: I was in Kindergarten in Honolulu when the Japanese bombed us. Many of my school mates and friends were Japanese Americans. In fact I think the city would have ground to a halt if all the Japanese Americans stopped working. It never crossed the minds of my parents or others on the island to put them in jail. However in January 1942 my mother and I flew to San Francisco on the China Clipper seaplane. California was a whole different world. There were very few Japanese Americans there and the locals were afraid of them. They made them go to internment camps like prisons. We still have a lot of crazy scared people in America. )
{ My story: I was in Kindergarten in Honolulu when the Japanese bombed us. Many of my school mates and friends were Japanese Americans. In fact I think the city would have ground to a halt if all the Japanese Americans stopped working. It never crossed the minds of my parents or others on the island to put them in jail. However in January 1942 my mother and I flew to San Francisco on the China Clipper seaplane. California was a whole different world. There were very few Japanese Americans there and the locals were afraid of them. They made them go to internment camps like prisons. We still have a lot of crazy scared people in America. )
Answered by
Damon
By the way, during most of WW2, I never really understood that the Japanese were enemy. I thought it was just Germans because I did not know any Germans. Japanese people were friends and neighbors in my life. It was impossible that they were bad guys.
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