Some people like to forget that we rounded up Japanese Americans just like Nazi Germany rounded up Jews, and we put them in camps. The tactics used were the same as the police in Boston.
History is very important to our future...
And that was wrong and should never have been done, but there are many differences between Japanese internment and the nazi internment.
First off, it was not just the japanese who were interned, italian and German immigrants were interned as well. I've been to the camp at Fort Missoula in Montana where the Italians on the West Coast were held. The law, was called the Enemy Aliens Act, which was passed in 1798....
Second, internees were well fed and recieved medical attention when needed
Third, many japanese-americans were never interned, and in most cases were allowed to opt to move off the West Coast. the "Exclusion Zone" was the states of Washington, Oregon, California, and Western Arizona. The Japanese were given until February of 1942 to move out of the exclusion zone.
fourth, the US Government eventually reimbursed all detainees, and by 1944 virtually all internees had been released to the East Coast where they worked on farms, joined the service, or worked in war industries for the ETO.
Fifth, many of the japanese americans interned were not citizens because of anti-asian laws made to prevent asians from becoming citizens, following world war 2 citizenship was granted to most of these people.
Finally motivation, the US did not intern people as a policy of "ethnic cleansing" or "the final solution" it was seen as measure of military nessesity to protect the war effort (during a declared period of war that we entered as a result of the home country conducting an outright military attack prior to declaration of war) and military and industrial base from a percieved "5th column" while misguided and wrong.....
it is ridicolous to compare internment to the nazi regime.
