Japanese Relocation (ca. 1943)

Narr. by Milton S. Eisenhower, director of the War Relocation Authority. An historical record of the transfer of Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to the American Interior as carried out the the U.S. Army and the War Relocation Authority. 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens. Special attention given to possibility of sabotage & espionage.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 1943
• world war II
• internment
• japanese
• japan
• internment camps

[imajika2]

I can't believe they ever considered this a good idea. Imagine if they rounded up all middle eastern / muslim people (citizens and aliens) and put them in camps like this today. Those poor Japanese people were forced to sell all they own and move away from the only homes they ever knew because of bigoted US paranoia. Shame on our ancestors for thinking this was a solution to anything.

[koreamy]

scary stuff :(

[keflar5]

HOLOHOAX, shame on the US

[artgalgenius]

@bimapringgo The Germans and Italians were required to register and carry special ID cards and plans were made to inter them. But the sheer number of Germans and Italians were too large to put into internment camps. Plus the loss of German and Italian workers would have crippled the factories in the East Coast where most of them were employed. Little Italy in Los Angeles actually dissolved during WWII. In Hawaii, no Japanese were interred because they were needed to work the plantations.

[steve4nlanguage]

"The Japanese themselves cheerfully handled the enormous paperwork involved." Yeah, right.

[steve4nlanguage]

@bimapringgo Good point. Actually, thousands of people with German ancestry in the US and Latin America ended up being interned during WWII, but the number didn't compare to the 100,000+ Japanese-Americans.

[bimapringgo]

Why only Japanese? What about the Germans, and the Italians?

[vindicatedxjin]

Being of Japanese decent, and an American. This makes me absolutely sick. What bigoted animals the US government could and can be.

[Thebeastcalledmydong]

@imajika2 Putting them in camps isn't a nice thing to do, but I wouldn't say it's unreasonable, since it is a sure way that you have no Japanese spies lurking around anything that could hurt the nation. Even to these days the US government keeps closer tabs on Muslim community's because there is a higher chance of a terrorist being in that group. I know from a moralistic perspective it's bad, but sacrifices need to be made in times of war. It all comes down who wins not who is the nicest...

[cheshirekens2233]

all people should be treated equally no matter what race. i feel bad for these people.

[erdbeere1987]

I feel sorry for this people. :(