Most of the people in the internment camps in the United States during World War II were
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Japanese Americans. The internment camps were established by the U.S. government following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, were forced to leave their homes and businesses and were held in these camps for the duration of the war. This was a dark chapter in American history and a violation of the civil rights of Japanese Americans.