If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
@ct_bergstrom Thank you for sharing this. The quotes are as chilling as the photographs.
“A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched—so a Japanese-American, born of Japanese parents—grows up to be a Japanese, not an American.” — LA Times
"The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.” — General John L. DeWitt
"for we were powerless. We had to do what the government ordered." — Misuyo Nakamura
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The PBS documentary Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp gives a lot of information about the community feelings before the decision was made and upon release.
https://www.pbs.org/video/betrayed-survivng-an-american-concentration-camp-1J4Nna/
There is another called Children of the Camps that focuses on 6 children's experience
https://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/documentary/index.html
Carl T. Bergstrom
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