Justice Denied

[Unkotare]

Had the opportunity yesterday to attend a lecture and speak privately with a survivor of fdr's concentration camps. It was a moving testimony of the effects of that would-be dictator's vile, inexcusable racism.

Our brave soldiers liberated victims from hitler's camps, and fdr threw innocent, loyal Americans into his. The fact that roosevelt's concentration camps were not death camps like hitler's excuses him not one bit.

 

[Muhammed]

FDR was a tyrant who enslaved more Americans than anyone else in history.

 

[Olde Europe]

Had the opportunity yesterday to attend a lecture and speak privately with a survivor of fdr's concentration camps. It was a moving testimony of the effects of that would-be dictator's vile, inexcusable racism.

Our brave soldiers liberated victims from hitler's camps, and fdr threw innocent, loyal Americans into his. The fact that roosevelt's concentration camps were not death camps like hitler's excuses him not one bit.

Though, mostly the Red Army liberated the camps. Otherwise, yep, that was quite the blemish.

What, if anything, new did you learn about the camps?

 

[sparky]

Had the opportunity yesterday to attend a lecture and speak privately with a survivor of fdr's concentration camps. It was a moving testimony of the effects of that would-be dictator's vile, inexcusable racism.

Our brave soldiers liberated victims from hitler's camps, and fdr threw innocent, loyal Americans into his. The fact that roosevelt's concentration camps were not death camps like hitler's excuses him not one bit.

Is this a bad time to bring up Gitmo Unkotare?

~S~

 

[Unkotare]

Had the opportunity yesterday to attend a lecture and speak privately with a survivor of fdr's concentration camps. It was a moving testimony of the effects of that would-be dictator's vile, inexcusable racism.

Our brave soldiers liberated victims from hitler's camps, and fdr threw innocent, loyal Americans into his. The fact that roosevelt's concentration camps were not death camps like hitler's excuses him not one bit.

Is this a bad time to bring up Gitmo Unkotare?

~S~

Why?

 

[whitehall]

FDR was a skilled politician if nothing else. His appointment of a former KKK member to the Supreme Court was paid back in full when Justice Black wrote the majority opinion justifying the incarceration of Americans without due process. It was the saddest day in Supreme Court history but FDR still had an ace in the hole with the total devotion of the media.The fix was in and is still in.

 

[Unkotare]

Had the opportunity yesterday to attend a lecture and speak privately with a survivor of fdr's concentration camps. It was a moving testimony of the effects of that would-be dictator's vile, inexcusable racism.

Our brave soldiers liberated victims from hitler's camps, and fdr threw innocent, loyal Americans into his. The fact that roosevelt's concentration camps were not death camps like hitler's excuses him not one bit.

Though, mostly the Red Army liberated the camps. Otherwise, yep, that was quite the blemish.

What, if anything, new did you learn about the camps?

Nothing substantively new, but the personal point of view of one family was powerful.

 

[Olde Europe]

Nothing substantively new, but the personal point of view of one family was powerful.

Okay, thanks.

Since the thread is titled "Justice Denied", I expected some of that injustice to have come to light, compelling the title. What would you propose to remedy that injustice?

 

[Natural Citizen]

Backdrop..

In the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set in motion a chain of events that would wreck tens of thousands of lives while providing scant return in terms of national security.

On September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland, Roosevelt ordered the creation of a top secret Special Division within the State Department. Its task: to catalog (got national ID? - emphasis mine) important Americans living in Germany and Japan. A few months later, he authorized the Special War Problems Division to identify Japanese and Germans in the United States and Latin America who could be used as trade bait for those Americans.

The government was therefore able, within days of Pearl Harbor, to take 1,212 Japanese, 620 Germans, and 98 Italians into custody. Many, many more would follow. When FDR asked Biddle how many Germans were in the country, Biddle told him there were about 600,000. "And you're going to intern all of them," Roosevelt replied.

They didn't intern all of them. But on February 19, 1942—just 74 days after Pearl Harbor—FDR signed the notorious Executive Order 9006, condemning Japanese, Germans, and Italians to forced removals from "military zones." The legal underpinning for the human disaster that followed was now in place. The War Relocation Authority, formed on March 18, 1942, operated in regions designated Military Areas 1 and 2, covering California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona. The Alien Enemy Control Unit, created soon after in the Department of Justice, ran Crystal City and operated branches in each federal judicial district, where Alien Enemy Hearing Boards determined who would be interned.

While tens of thousands of Americans were sent to the camps, the reach of the program extended beyond the U.S. border via the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, a multi-national arrangement run by the State Department that worked with Latin American nations to find and detain enemy aliens. Peru, for example, deported 1,799 Japanese, 702 Germans, and 49 Italians to the United States. In total, 4,058 Germans, 2,264 Japanese, and 288 Italians from 13 Latin American countries were sent to the U.S.; many ended up at Crystal City.

As was often the case in California and other Western states, there was more at work in the Latin American deportations than a concern for national security, or even overt racism. "In return for delivering Axis nationals to the United States," Russell writes, "the governments seized their homes, businesses and bank accounts." Deportation could be a money-making proposition.


Conitnued - America's Other World War II Internment Camps

 

[Unkotare]

9066, not 9006.