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This
poll in 1942 shows that the majority of
Americans
agree with the government's policy to
forcibly place
Japanese and Japanese-Americans in internment
camps.
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Panel
12: What about the USA?
The
Nazis build many death camps. Millions of people
- Jews, Roma, Union leaders, gays, Jehovah Witnesses,
Catholics and political prisoners are killed
in camps like Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor and
Treblinka.
Not
only Nazis attack human rights in World War
II. More than 120,000, mostly Japanese-Americans,
are forced from their schools, homes and work
on the West Coast of the United States and placed
in barbed-wire camps. A large majority of Americans
support locking up these Japanese-American citizens.
Luckily, the camps aim to imprison, not kill
human beings.
Very
few are willing to defend these innocent people.
Japanese-American students are bullied or called
names in many places, though in most classrooms,
the issue is avoided. These students feel alone
and forgotten.
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