Executive Order 9066: A Shameful Moment In WW2 America | Silent Sacrifice Part 1 | Timeline

In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that cleared the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans in U.S. confinement camps. Men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry were evicted from the West Coast of the United States and held in sites across the country.
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[@olliemck60]

My father-in-law purchased property from a Japanese family about to be interned and gave it back to them when they were freed. the local Japanese community honored him for life as a result. Many others shamefully exploited the situation and took advantage of Japanese Americans.

[@laurenjohnson2577]

U have an honorable father/family....one cannot ask for more....it warms my heart to hear stories like this....thank u !

[@danielc3512]

True kindness!

[@lancerussell755]

@@laurenjohnson2577 That would be rare

[@maximechevalier1923]

Ça c est une belle histoire. Ton grand père était un GRAND Homme 💪

[@billotto602]

❤❤❤❤❤ God bless your father-in-law ! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@sebrinabennett5024]

My Grandparents had neighbors in Lodi, Ca who owned a Nursery when they were called to the camps. My grandpa bought it from them and kept their belongings. They were shipped back East somewhere. A few years later my grandfather sold their land back to them for $1. I did not find out until years later from grandma when she had a landscaper came once a year to check on grandmas house. Those landscaping guys were from that nursery and took care of my grandma yard until she past away in 2007. By the way, my family were German and they didn’t have it easy either

[@SimpleJackPC]

@Crazy Alice shame they weren’t racist so you could bash them huh

[@Minihopa]

EO 9066 didn't only affect Japanese Americans... several hundred German and Italian Americans were forced to move away from coastal areas as a result of individual exclusion orders. While FBI agents rounded up some Japanese-American men, they also launched a sweep of German-born men and about 11,000 people of German ancestry, joined by a few thousand Italian nationals, who all eventually were interned. EO 9066 called for the compulsory relocation of more than 10,000 Italian-Americans and restricted the movements of more than 600,000 Italian-Americans nationwide.

[@dazzlings]

wow

[@DK-zy5fm]

My grandfather was one of them

[@louishamilton9648]

Shameful…but let’s face it, it was much easier for you to be assimilate because of your ethnicity.

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

I had to read farewell to manzanar as a boy. It’s important for Americans to learn this story and strive to do better in the future.

[@gnsgml11]

Well why should the Americans learn this when Japanese aren't even admitting to their WW2 war crimes?

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

@@gnsgml11 the reason it is important to learn is because the U.S.A are at peace with Japan. Recognizing our mistakes would set a good example and encourage them to recognize their mistakes. More than 100 thousand people were affected by order 9066. About 2/3 of those people were born in the United States. Their story is a part of our shared of the pacific war.

[@patriciamoffat1542]

To listen to you, wanting the Japanese to apologise for war crimes, youd think the good old US of A was squeaky clean.

[@Zewsfux]

It's insane to me this happened and nobody really talks about it. I'm a history nerd and I actually forgot we did this.

[@JPriz416]

this really pains me. the Japanese people who came to this country deserved better. they were a better American than I ever could be.

[@Iron-sy4yp]

It’s easy to judge and take the high road that was different time we were attacked more less sucker punched and the US government did what they thought was right at the time right or wrong

[@JPriz416]

@@Iron-sy4yp the most decorated unit in WW2 was a Japanese unit that fought in Europe.

[@jayr178]

@@JPriz416 no

[@stefchris2067]

@@jayr178 lol check the facts, just replying with 'no' displays your ignorance

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

If you’re interested in some of the historical context it’s worth reading about the tragic Niihau incident. It was heavily censored at the time, but following the attack on Pearl Harbor a crashed zero pilot causes havoc on one of the minor Hawaiian islands and this heavily impacts the government’s decision to peruse Japanese internment. The second justification used at the time was espionage and reporting on naval movements. In my personal opinion fear was a bigger motivator than strategy. After the war Japanese internment is compared to Soviet and Axis crimes against civilian populations. Given the fact the pacific war occurs mostly at sea the strategic justification for internment is flimsy at best. Remember that Japanese Americans were given very short notice and their property was generally seized by their neighbors without full or any payment.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

Don’t forget race too. They didn’t lock American-Germans until after they were caught as spies or saboteurs

[@ynot2385]

@@OBIIIIIIIII there was absolutely a hate for German Americans and it changed the cultural landscape of America to this day. German used to be the most popular language to learn in American schools and there were much more German themed restaurants, clubs, etc then we will ever see again. There was also a much larger group of German Americans than Japanese Americans. German Americans were not just let off the hook. My family came from Germany right before WW2 and were treated horrendously.

[@vonschweringen8321]

@@ynot2385 this is true; many of my family left Germany during the Weimar era, and were also treated with great contempt. Also Germans and Italians were interned unconstitutionally during WWII.

[@jimkluska253]

I guess the Americans were saying stay here, we will keep u safe...GOD knows that is not what the Japanese said to anybody that was not Japanese!!

[@1vigorousdragon]

To compare the rhetoric of today to back then doesn't even warrant thus ridiculous narration by thus leftist "historian" . To criticise from the benefit of safety 80yrs later is pathetic. As for the fear aspect, well we all see that's still alive and well with the blown out of proportion Covid19. Where TREATMENT ,not INEFFECTIVE VACCINES , should of been the focus. All we got was BS ineffective lock downs , Suicides and people's livelyhoods gone. Freedoms taken away and division in Society. These are dark times. LEST WE FORGET!!

[@anjulikamins6420]

So grateful for a thorough introduction to this topic. We've ignored it for too long.

[@user-bs5ys4vo7e]

It was so unfair. My father used to say he went to school barefoot and came back home and he was bullied and beaten by other kids.

[@pauy8106]

This is why I watch every ww2 documentary I see because I had no idea this happened

[@AYKAY88]

Omg. 😧 if you're an American and went to school in America, my God, school has failed sooooooo many.

[@Inquisitor6321]

@Pauy8 Are you a US citizen?

[@pauy8106]

@@Inquisitor6321 yea I am

[@Inquisitor6321]

WOW! And they didn't teach you about Japanese-Americans' detainment?

[@GlennTheSadMarinersFan]

@@Inquisitor6321 They did when I was in school. in the 80s.. Also movies like snow falling on cedars has been out for years.

[@andromeda331]

Thank you for covering this.

[@menetharamsammy3700]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[@arthurmosel808]

This has another even nastier possibility. The US military started recruiting Japanese Americans for radio intercept activities as early as 1940. The Japanese military still used uncoded radio communications even into the early months of the war because they thought that the US wasn't able to understand the language (the Imperial Japanese Navy did use effective codes however for its operations). Was the incarceration meant to hide that usage is a question that I wonder about? I don't know; but the camps began to be phased out by the middle of the war when such secrecy became less important. Add this to racism and economic envy and you have a very poisonous mixture.

[@Inquisitor6321]

@Authur Mosel interesting point. But what do you mean by " Add this to racism and economic envy and you have a very poisonous mixture?" WHOSE envy & racism?

[@ralphjimenez3191]

Let us forgive those who have done wrong to us, but let us remember those mistakes so that we may not repeat the past.

[@murielphillips8897]

I had no idea this happened. That it happened before the "Warsaw ghetto" is even more shocking to me. Knowing that America knew about "Concentration camp's" is SHOCKING TO ME. Even before the "Jews" were sent to "Concentration camp's"😠

[@patriciamoffat1542]

@@darthvadeth6290 Are you American/Japanese? Were you involved in the 2nd World War by any chance.?

[@ralphjimenez3191]

They deleted their comment out of shame.

[@pistonburner6448]

Well, not much learning done: so many people who absolutely condemn these crimes and wrongs committed by the government and its bureaucracies now have turned around and claim that government and its bureaucracies can do no wrong and should have absolute, unaccountable control over everyone's lives, anyone even questioning them or verbally criticizing them should be attacked, canceled, labeled for life and have their lives destroyed (an internment without the camp part)! Notice also how there is _absolutely no mention_ of who was in control of the country at the time: The Democratic Party controlled the White House, the House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate (and had been for a long time, as it was in its 14-year-period of total control)! Franklin D. Roosevelt was President, Sam Rayburn (of course a democrat) was speaker of the House. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the democrat president, who had given the Executive Order 9066 to begin the internment only suspended it in 1944 due to being _forced_ to do so by the Supreme Court. It was republican president Gerald Ford who terminated Executive Order 9066. It was he who gave the first apology. It was republican president Ronald Reagan who signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which granted the interned Japanese-Americans (and others interned) reparations. It was republican president George H. W. Bush who had the redress payments and apology letters sent out.

[@uknewslink]

Lest we forget the service and sacrifice of those who died to save peace in our countries. Let love and peace prevail around the world.

[@billotto602]

Are you referring to the Japanese who were imprisoned & yet still volunteered to join the armed forces ?

[@martinpoldma6393]

Thanks!

[@cgardner85]

This sad historical event happened in Canada too when Japanese Canadians were detained by the Mackenzie King government.

[@BobSmith-in2gn]

Will you do a video on the shameful concentration camps the Japan set up across in the Pacific Theater of Operations?

[@vonschweringen8321]

This what about stuff is not good. The only way America will ever be whole, is for us to learn and accept the good and the bad of our history. It can't be stars and stripes forever all the time.

[@clvrswine]

Quiet, you. America is #1. Deal with it.

[@CDNSMOKEJUMPER]

@Paddy le Blanc or the warping of history. The Japanese civilian population was a potential threat. We locked Germans up during WWI as well. The Japanese also earnt two nukes by being worse than the Third Reich.

[@AYKAY88]

stop deflecting.

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

Wow, what a sad attempt to sideline this. These people had nothing to do with camps set up by Japan - these people were Americans whose only "crime" was to be descendants of Japanese.

[@lw3646]

Soundtrack from the Village 2004?

[@darreno9874]

It was not a mistake to protect America, it was a mistake not to treat the interned with more dignity.

[@sklewafe]

Interesting. if a few dozen Hispanic black asian people stormed the capitol along with a few of our own kind who WERE involved in the plot, do you think they would be walking off those steps alive or would there be a pile of rainbow colored bodies being shoveled off ?? I don't remember or recall seeing any sort of protection on my tv screen that day, all I saw was a bunch of white people comically disgracing their own country's standing and the reason they got away with it so mess-free was because of just that fact. is this the same logic that bans travel from south africa after they HELPED YOU track the omicron variant a form of thanks i suppose but not banning travel from European countries with that same exact variant 😂😂😂😂

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

Yes, let's "protect America by summarily arresting with no due process Americans" - that's great.

[@stefchris2067]

protect it by whom ? your comment is plain stupid

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

@@stefchris2067 Actually, your comment is.

[@donsteitz6034]

Iksnay. It's unethical and immoral to intern people just based off their ethnic origin alone.

[@machinesofgod]

I visited Manzanar in California. I highly recommend to visit. This is one of many stains on this country. It was determined that Japanese people in the USA posed no threat to national security. I am not the biggest Reagan fan, but it was honorable of him to issue a formal apology. Thank you for uploading this.

[@shadow7037932]

Are you aware of the Niihau incident? If not you should read up on it. There absolutely was a legitimate fear of Japanese Americans helping the enemy as shown with this incident. And this incident absolutely played a role in the decision for the order.

[@sandranatali1260]

Is history going to happen to American citizens once again? While we see countries like Australia and Greece putting citizens in Covid camps? Are we going to have our constitutional rights violated because of those who are refusing to take the Jab? Is our government going to follow the countries that are putting people in Covid camps? I'm not so sure of our government! I have become weary of my government, which makes me think that hat this could happen here!

[@brucegibbins3792]

It's not difficult to imagine the overwhelming fear of attacks on the US mainland because of the strategic attack on Pearl Harbour HI by IJN. Elsewhere, further south in the Pacific, citizens of German descent were imprisoned. The diddiculties in identifying people of interest from the overall country of origin, here it was Germany, who may comment crimes to benefit German interested must have been difficult, so the country rounded up all its citizens and residents of both Japanese and German heritage as a precautionary measure. Judging these actions from the safe distance that time and a change to more accepting attitudes is not so helpful. Perhaps if the same circumstances were to arise again, this time involving citizens of Chinese extraction, a renewed episode of coralling up of a country's citizens of Chinese extraction would then to see similar monitoring of these folks also. Even now, counties such as Australian, UK & US and their AUKUS agreement are developing war plans to push back against China and it's short road to hegemony in the face of a declining USA.

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

Exactly so, but what can you expect from kids like "Isogen" here desperately trying to justify this gross crime against other Americans, a crime that the government apologized for it and paid compensation.

[@robertogaspar4649]

Ridiculous how we was never taught about this in school.

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

They won't teach anything evil Democrats did.... KKK, eugenics, etc.

[@drew21t]

I was, and I grew up in California. Probably depends on your school district.

[@andrewmastrandonas5123]

Every time I see Dan Snow at the beginning of each of these videos I get annoyed for this idiotic opening to every video.

[@thedukeofpaducah9682]

I save my tears for the comfort women thank you very much.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

By trying to drag others down with you, suggests that you’re going down too. The treatment of comfort women was awful, but that doesn’t take away anything from the racist treatment of Americans by Americans

[@jamesgreenldn]

@@OBIIIIIIIII I saw you copy and pasted this Bs on my comment too 😴

[@alastor8091]

Ba-hased.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

@@jamesgreenldn you made the same point

[@vkqtran4721]

@@OBIIIIIIIII And it also doesn’t take away that Imperial Japan was at least 5 times more racist to the countries it invaded and occupied compared to the US treatment of Japanese Americans. I’m not even including Unit 731. You’re free to search up about it though. Also, no country was as cruel to its prisoners of war than Japan was to its during WW2.

[@SiVlog1989]

This is another example of the shameful and dark history of racial discrimination in the United States. These people weren't being moved out of the Western States because of the war against Japan, it was an assumption based on nothing more than their ethnicity that they were sympathetic to Japan and its war efforts.

[@SiVlog1989]

@@waxdood not really, it's like saying, for example, an African nation attacking the United States therefore every single person of African descent should be interred in camps. It's an excuse for expressing racism towards a specific ethnic group regardless of where their loyalty lies

[@SiVlog1989]

@@waxdood your words were "when you're in panic mode it's not an unreasonable conclusion to draw," language like that is defending the indefensible

[@SiVlog1989]

@@waxdood well then, you've just contradicted yourself 😂

[@stewartsavage1123]

Looking forward to the Allies story and how they were treated in Japan

[@accuser_of_the_brethren7816]

You mean the constant labor of starving wounded and prisoners of war that surrendered and weren't treated any better than a diseased dog? Or the beheadings of allied soldiers in the Japanese p.o.w. camps that had their heads mounted on pikes for their fellow comrades to watch rot while they tried to eat maggot infested rice once every other day? I'm looking forward to that one too..

[@stewartsavage1123]

@@accuser_of_the_brethren7816 yeah that one

[@ObviousCleft]

The Japanese brutally tortured and made slaves of P.O.Ws. As in prisoners of war. As in soldiers from an opposing force. These people were not soldiers. They were your citizens. American people. Not even the Japanese did that.

[@Inquisitor6321]

@@ObviousCleft true - but anyone of them could have been a spy or saboteur.

[@stoneyrivers3235]

There will never be an Allied story. They killed them all.

[@dtna]

My great grandparents, grandparents and parents were all in Camp Manzanar for three years. In the winter, there was snow on the ground and in the summer, there would be dust storms. My father and his siblings made camouflage netting for the war effort in the South Pacific.

[@sandranatali1260]

My family are Germans from Russia in the Volga area. When they came to the states, they settled in Wisconsin, in a german speaking area. My mother said during WW2, there were signs in the stores, saying no german speaking allowed.

[@davidadams4329]

★Shameful Indeed★ History that I was never taught in school

[@lusciouskollektibles8663]

War sucks for everyone.

[@dinola3268]

It was very interesting to visit the us Konzentrationcamps in california.

[@mindriot69]

As an American it’s things like the forced imprisonment of Japanese people (amongst many other racist, sexist & bigoted issues) that have kept me from ever being patriotic about the US. Everyday we see some version of discrimination, hatred, violence towards people cased on their skin color, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Thank you for posting this. The truth always needs to be told.

[@asasnapparel5359]

move to Afghanistan

[@stefchris2067]

@@asasnapparel5359 move to nepal

[@joeymarie72]

I'm sure there are plenty of America hating countries that would be more than happy to welcome you. I'll help you pack.

[@kevinyarbrough5206]

And people really believe they have rights what a joke you have privilege's only. Rights are not rights if they can be taken away. Don't think for one second this couldn't happen to you

[@jimpool7780]

Don't forget the MS St Louis, 1939. Over 900 Jews fled Germany on that ship hoping to escape the German concentrations camps. It sailed to Cuba, US and Canada. Democrats pressures Cuba to say no, American President said no, even the Canadian PM, a man named King said no. They were Forced to return to Germany where they were sent to the German extermination camps.

[@alastor8091]

Based.

[@seandawson5899]

Only the democrats? I recall neither party wanting any sort of refugee.

[@kohl57]

Wrong. The ship landed its passengers in Antwerp, Belgium. Not Germany.

[@andrewmastrandonas5123]

Such a shameful part of our history.

[@CDNSMOKEJUMPER]

Two nukes. Would do again.

[@shawndyer8140]

Tragic.

[@SoothSprayer]

Video starts at 4:45

[@moredistractions]

You hear a lot about the injustice of this situation, but one thing that is rarely mentioned is an important incident that preceded it: the Niʻihau incident in which a Japanese pilot crash landed on a Hawaiian island during the Pearl Harbor attack. He was promptly aided and armed by Japanese Americans. It demonstrated that when push came to shove, some Japanese Americans were readily prepared to betray their country and aid enemy forces. Obviously not all Japanese Americans were like that, but how do you know who are the loyalists and who will turn traitor? I can understand from the War Department's perspective why they must have felt it would be a bad idea to potentially have tens of thousands of possible fifth columnists/saboteurs operating on American soil. In retrospect, the internment can be looked back on as a terrible tragedy and injustice. Given the atmosphere at the time though, and the dire win or perish circumstances of that war, one can understand why the leadership must have felt it was a necessary measure.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

Didn’t do that to the German-Americans

[@justin8894]

There were quite a few German-Americans who returned to Germany to fight with the Nazis.

[@mr.b6629]

Also, not mention in this video. The Japanese Empire were smuggling Japanese children spies into China around this time. So when these children spies grew up, they would push Japanese influence, etc. This was probably going on in the US as well. Who knows….it sucks though. It just takes one person to ruin things for everyone else.

[@CDNSMOKEJUMPER]

@@OBIIIIIIIII yes we did and the British Royal family even had to change their name from Hanover to Windsor because everyone hated Germans.

[@andrewwilliams9312]

@@OBIIIIIIIII Look up "Internment of German Americans" in WW1 and WW2 on wiki.

[@jeffreyfoster3105]

Can you help me understand if the Niihau incident might or might not have contributed to this injustice. There are a few videos on the story on YT. I am from Kauai, Hawaii and knew about it as a child living in Kaumakani. I saw the video of it recently and was curious if it contributed to the incarceration of of the Japanese Americans. One video recounts a medal being awarded.

[@dr.jubair6627]

Watching from Bangladesh.. first view..

[@simonyip5978]

Germans, Austrians and Italians were interned in the UK.

[@r0c_itfilms650]

This is one of the 🔝 episodes from the recent videos. If not thee** best. As it’s about time light is shed on America’s picture perfect policies…👎 👏👏

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Timeline . Not you Dan Snow , you know noffing !

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Oh I thought they wrote "Sensei". Now that I"ve re-read it, it says "Sansei".

[@andrewthomson]

@WhatsApp ±❶❷❷❾❷❶❷❹❺❻❽ what up, scammer 😗

[@rudiruttger]

The niiahu incident wasn't "fanning the flames of hate" it was an example of a real threat

[@deadhorse1391]

One of the reasons the Japanese were able to pull off Pearl Harbor was because of the information they got from Japanese American civilians After the attack a damaged Japanese Zero crash landed on the Small Hawaiian island of Niʻihau All of the islanders of Japanese decent sided with and aided the pilot giving him back his gun and papers actually taking up arms against the Loyal Hawaiians on the island. Finally one of the Hawaiians over powered the pilot FDR was aware of this and thought the Japanese Americans on the west coast would act the same if Japan invaded, something everyone thought was a certainty

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

Absolute nonsense, the Japanese spy at Hawaii was a Japanese Navy officer posing as a consulate worker, he was not a Japanese-American and he didn't get his information from Japanese-Americans: Japan didn't "pull off Pearl Harbor because of the information they got from Japanese American civilian". Try to sideline and justify crimes all you want - crimes against Americans that the government of the USA apologized and paid the survivors compensation for.

[@stephenderogier6790]

Exactly so, Niko, but what can you expect from some people who can't admit crimes committed and try to justify them: it's especially sad when the government had acknowledged them, but people like this "Deadhorse1" kid can't.

[@JL-tm3rc]

@@NikoChristianWallenberg there was a threat as shown in the Nihau incident if these civilians of japanese decent immediately sided with the enemy pilot then they might likely side on the enemy in an actual invasion

[@vonVince]

"But but Niihau incident" - one incident doesn't justify rounding up Americans with no due process and forcing them into camps: by that logic white Americans of whatever background should also have been arrested liked that with no due process (funny how you aren't despite all the white people of various backgrounds who were agents). The government of the USA acknowledged that what was done to these Americans simply because they were of Japanese descent was wrong, they apologized and compensated survivors: no amount of your whataboutism is going to justify that.

[@stephenderogier6790]

@@vonVince indeed. Japanese-Americans were the mostly highly decorated of ANY Americans who served in the military in World War II, despite the fact that their families at home were put into camps.

[@papamarkw]

Read “Facing the Mountain” by Daniel James Brown.

[@maculka999]

I am a European, I had absolutely no idea about this part of history.

[@pod9538]

Stewart savage. And it doesn't tell you most if not all were back home by the end of 43. And I can't wait for this film company to do a story on allied pow's in Japan.

[@joeymarie72]

Yeah...I think we'll be waiting a while for that.

[@daneljessgraham8744]

the droning background music spoils this

[@shelbynamels973]

Japanese citizens living in the US became "enemy aliens" when Japan declared war on the US and attacked the fleet at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines (they were US possessions or territories at the time, it was an attack on US soil only in the sense that a US Navy vessel is considered US soil), not necessarily in that order. Since Hitler's Germany declared war on the US about a week later, German citizens and the allied Italians became enemy aliens as well. They were rounded up and interned as well. Not only were citizens of Japan, Germany and Italy rounded up and confined to concentration camps, the FBI even went to Mexico and countries of South America to round up and deport Japanese citizens TO the United States. (Brazil, Chile and Peru had the largest settlement of Japanese outside Japan). 'The imprisonment of civilian enemy aliens is standard procedure among warring sides. It was practiced in the European theater by the British with German citizens on their soil, as well as by the Japanese with Dutch, British and British=allied citizens in territory that they captured. ( I am unsure about how they treated the French in Indochina, since it was technically controlled by the Vichy government, which was a puppet regime installed by Germany. That 's why the British and French exchanged gunfire in Algeria and Thailand/Burma).

[@francisvincentcabalatungan3232]

Critical defense of any nation doesnt speak in times of war, so whenever there is transparency SPLENDOUR AND BE CLEAR IN ALL MEANS NECESSARRY PREVENTING MISSUNDERSTANDING AND DEMISE

[@johnnyngai8067]

Guilty of association ? ?

[@israelbishop9296]

"to be continued". ?? I looked for a part 2 and found none. Or is this merely rhetorical?

[@BarryE48]

This video was published yesterday. Be patient.

[@jeffaiello6646]

I'm the producer of the film. Just found it on this site. It was orginally made for PBS. Part 2 is published here now. Thanks for taking the time to watch.

[@totskietodna4196]

when there is war..civilians are the ones suffer the most.

[@lastsolfa]

the code "TIMELINE" is not valid, apparently

[@The723343]

Start leveling your audio the music is way up here and the talking is way down here please and thank you

[@rev.olution583]

Music too loud can hardly hear the person speaking

[@EngPheniks]

at first I thought from the title that it was Starwars 😄

[@paulwilson5493]

How could you not hold them considering what they believe in

[@jamesgreenldn]

Word to the wise, never forget Pearl Harbour

[@seandawson5899]

Means so much more than the loss of life in the event. Never forget how we responded

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

By trying to drag others down with you, suggests that you’re going down too. The attack on Pearl harbour was wrong but that doesn’t take away anything from the racist treatment of Americans by Americans

[@Inquisitor6321]

@@OBIIIIIIIII virtue signaling much? No amount of virtue signaling can absolve you of your wrong doings.

[@shadow7037932]

​@@OBIIIIIIIII Are you aware of the Niihau incident? If not you should read up on it. There absolutely was a legitimate fear of Japanese Americans helping the enemy. And this incident absolutely played a role in the decision for the order.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

@@shadow7037932 I am aware. Thank you. How does that justify racist treatment of Asian Americans pre-war? In the UK Germans were not rounded up out of fear. There were still spies, but they were only arrested and detained after they were caught. Better yet, MI turned them into double agents. So there clearly was a better way to deal with it

[@donsteitz6034]

We did these people wrong.

[@AMX86]

Shameful is right.

[@Inquisitor6321]

One can easily make perfect decisions with hindsight.

[@stevematsumura255]

How come PBS doesn't broadcast this program on Prime Time viewing instead of the "Dead Hour" (10;00pm-11;00pm)??! During "Asian Month"?????

[@drneil55859]

While the majority of people subjected to this were innocent of anything This was in fact implemented after a Japanese pilot coming from the Pearl Harbor attack crashed on another island where there was a large population of Japanese working on a plantation. They actively hid this pilot from the Americans and aided him in trying to get back to the Japanese Navy. Once he was caught the decision was made to start the internments because it was felt others would aid the enemy..

[@kennethtan6403]

Skip the first 9 1/2 minutes of introduction.

[@Kiyoone]

Wars it self are shameful... Not for the eyes of the winner that is writing the history about it...But hey... glad we have records of this

[@Sean12248]

Is there a documentary on comfort women for the Japanese ? That's hardly mentioned. Or how about a documentary on Unit 731 from the Japanese military.

[@russell2890]

I learned about this from George Carlin

[@timothywmullen2945]

What if the situation Was Reversed? By The Way What About how China was treated in WW2? ALL PEOPLE'S CAN BE JUDGED!!!!

[@BarryE48]

True, us humans can be totally disgusting people. We should consider how we would feel if the shoe was on the other foot. All of us deserve respect (unless we show that we don't deserve it).

[@kosjeyr]

As one that knew of this as there were camps in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico at least to keep overall all POWs and such, there was a lot of speculation of who was a spy and out of all the countries at war during WWII, the Japanese were the most brutal towards any POWs.

[@patriciamoffat1542]

Most of those people were either Japanese/American or children under 14 years of age. I hardly think how the Japanese treated prisoners had any connection to the born and bred Americans.

[@donsteitz6034]

That has nothing to do with anyone just for being a Japanese-American.

[@pistonburner6448]

@@patriciamoffat1542 Read up on the Ni'ihau incident: a total of three people were on that island who were of Japanese ancestry, and ALL of them, 100% of them immediately turned to help the crash landed Japanese pilot to overpower the rest of the islanders to get back his secret documents. How much clearer proof do you want? Or how the Japanese spy who gathered intelligence for the Pearl Harbour attack was aided by Japanese-Americans, and many knew he was Japanese, he was working for the consulate and was engaging in espionage activities but they still didn't turn him in.

[@booboolips6053]

Execute order 66🤩

[@jamesgreenldn]

666 Bix nood!

[@Crashed131963]

But they did not do it to Germans and Italians?

[@sklewafe]

because the Germans and Italians did not directly attack their sovereignty, Japanese Directly bombed stronghold

[@andrewwilliams9312]

[Repost] Look up "Internment of German Americans" in WW1 and WW2 on wiki.

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

Anyone else read the title like Palpatine?

[@paulwilcock3787]

Did the Japanese make special provisions for US citizens in Japan at this time?

[@ivettengdejaen1274]

You miss the point. These were Americans you interned, not Japanese people. What the Japanese did to the Americans must be compared to what the Americans did to the Japanese, which is a totally different topic.

[@edwinsalau150]

Did they change your name German sounding names in the UK? Did the first Sea Lord lose his position? Has anyone ever heard of the Berlin Turnpike in Newark,New Jersey? Has anyone ever heard of German Valley, New Jersey?

[@BarbaraJikai]

The sharp and loud background music makes this video impossible to watch.

[@BarryE48]

So true. I have difficulty in listening to the narration because of the unwelcome dirge in the background.

[@t5ruxlee210]

It was a shameful moment in more than just one. The war was going badly at the time and in both Canada and the USA the government manpower calculus was that it took far fewer bodies to look after ethnic Japanese in internment camps opening up in the middle of nowhere, compared to protecting them 24/ 7 from rampaging west coast racist mobs on civy street.

[@sharlesleglerc]

Execute Order 9066

[@emperorpalpatine4681]

Execute order 9066

[@pozn9962]

hi

[@rpm1796]

Tell us about what happened o the Americans & Canadians of Japanese descent who chose to go back to imperial Japan.

[@bradvincet1848]

Ridiculous

[@YouTubeCensorsEverything]

This still happens today under the veil of tax delinquency. You go where you're told to & no one questions anything.

[@desmondfarrell7249]

America has nothing to be proud of when it comes to its citizens!!

[@alvinwagner6085]

Anyone know what happened to Americans living in Japan when the war started?

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Welp, using the magic of Google, I've found that the small number of Americans in Japan were all expelled around 1942. These being mostly diplomats and journalists.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Oh, and now this "During the war, over 1,000 citizens of Allied nations living in Japan were detained in internment camps."

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

They did much worse to us.

[@buckbuck9225]

How do you think a Frenchman would fare in Britain during a war??.

[@sosalpha]

Thus "great" nation kicked out the settlers in New England, they ousted many native groups and kicked out the Spanish. They never learn from their mistakes

[@doctordetroit4339]

This was a war of national survival. Not like all the other wars you may have been in or know those who fought. Remember that. No apologies are necessary. Stop with the virtue signaling.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

That’s why you locked up all the German-Americans too, huh? Oh wait, you didn’t… So much for national survival

[@jimmyryan5880]

Why did it stop?

[@thomasweatherford5125]

Hideous chapter of this country’s history.

[@darthsilversith667]

At least we treated them more humanely than our counterparts treated the people they put into camps. It’s a joke that this is considered the same as what the Soviets or Germans did with their camps and there was genuine reason for what we did.

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

But you didn’t. Pre-1941, there was no difference between you and the Germans

[@darthsilversith667]

@@OBIIIIIIIII 🙄

[@OBIIIIIIIII]

@@darthsilversith667 dehumanised them, denied them their rights, locked them up on camps. The took the same blue print. The fact that they didn’t take it further like others, is not a very good defence. If anything, it’s an admittance of guilt

[@nunouno001]

Just because the Soviets and Germans mistreated their prisoners much worse than we did doesn’t suddenly magically make our actions any less cruel or awful.

[@darthsilversith667]

@@OBIIIIIIIII They were moved there because they were a security risk. At least we gave them a decent roof, clothes and food. Pretty sure they had far more comforts and a better life in our camps than any other camps during that war and we didn’t beat them or otherwise mistreat them. We gave them and axis pow’s the exact same rations that we gave our own citizens and troops during the war. As far as “prisoner camps” in WWII.. they practically got the 5 star experience. Now, it’s not right that they got no or next to no compensation for their homes and businesses before being relocated, but didn’t we make reparations for that later?

[@oriolesfan61]

It was tyranny and America's gun owners didn't defend fellow from that government tyranny. Just one example of the militia myth

[@chloewhite1822]

I apologize, on behalf of my country, to those Japanese-Americans that were held in internment camps.

[@markandrewscott8000]

Why do you feel the need to apologise, you played no part in these rough events that you're country caused

[@markandrewscott8000]

Listening to the interviewees was fascinating but the narrator sounded quite preachy and even condescending to me the viewer. It may be because I'm Scottish it just sounds that way. Good though

[@samianssi]

execute order 66

[@jeremykwanhongkok4221]

The actions of those Japanese who aided the enemy pilot on Ni ihau Island should not be condoned and they do not represent the community as a whole as we see in the JACL who are the true and loyal Americans of Japanese descent.

[@ronaldcossin4525]

the curse of The Tower of Babel, good luck with it never happening again, nothing new under the sun

[@polygamous1]

This is a very tough call to get right between security n fairness, what am sure of is most Japanese Americans loyalty was with America but not all, as for the American born Japanese the overwhelming majority their loyalty belonged to the country they where born in, this is natural for most humans but how do u get things right in a war situation? so sad for all those people but this is the politicians to blame not the people