Japanese Internment
The Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was forced to relocate and incarceration in the camps in the interior of the United States. Some were between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty two percent of the internees were United States citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration shortly after the Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
Ten camps were completed in remote areas of seven western states. Housing was Spartan, consisting mainly of barracks. Children were expected to attend school, adults had the option of working for a salary of $5 per day. The United States government hoped that the interns could make the camps self-sufficient by farming to produce food.
The camps were often too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer, the food was mass produced army style grub. And the interns knew that if they tried to flee, armed sentries who stood watch around the clock, would shoot them.
In 1988, Congress attempted to apologize for the action by awarding each surviving intern $20,000. While the American concentration camps never reached the levels of Nazi death camps
Ten camps were completed in remote areas of seven western states. Housing was Spartan, consisting mainly of barracks. Children were expected to attend school, adults had the option of working for a salary of $5 per day. The United States government hoped that the interns could make the camps self-sufficient by farming to produce food.
The camps were often too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer, the food was mass produced army style grub. And the interns knew that if they tried to flee, armed sentries who stood watch around the clock, would shoot them.
In 1988, Congress attempted to apologize for the action by awarding each surviving intern $20,000. While the American concentration camps never reached the levels of Nazi death camps
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