The Mass Incarceration Of Japanese Americans In WW2 | Silent Sacrifice Part 2 | Timeline

[@sebrinabennett5024]

I have a story to share. My grandpa and grandma owned a dairy farm just outside Lodi, Ca. They had Japanese family neighbors that had a Nursery and were assigned to be in a camp in Southern California. Somehow my grandpa and the head of the Japanese family knew they would lose their land and business. So they sold it to my grandpa and kept some of their belongings. Grandma said they stayed in communication with the family all through the years and the government even attempts to take the land. When the years past the Japanese family came back home and my grandpa sold it back to them. The exchange was only $1. I found out this story from Grandma years later when she was getting new landscaping done and had these wonderful bushes brought by a Nursery in town. The Japanese family always came and took care of the yard and landscaping of my grandmas house until she died in 2012. Till this day the same family still runs the business. And by the way, my grandpa was German and he didn’t have it any better during that time.

[@Kubotahonda5]

Gods bless your family 🙏❤️🎌🇺🇸 Thank you 🙏

[@saidufofanah2210]

Your grandparents sound like they were great people.

[@tvdv3416]

@Sabrina Bennett I have a story for you. Believe it or not, my grandparents and mother told me that story several times when I was a kid and we now tell it to our kids. I think other families do too. There is a reason why it is important to us. She, my mom, was born in camp, but my grandparents lived in Berkeley. My grandfather would go out to Lodi, Stockton and Modesto to buy plants for his nurseries. Some of them came from your family friends. There was a lot to worry about in camp. When they would be released and where they would go was a big one. They, your friends (I'm not sure why chose not to include their name, but I think it has to do with Shi kata ja nai so I will follow suit), said they were not worried because of the arrangement with your grandfather. My grandfather, like many others, did not trust that the property would be returned. Left alone in the freezing, barren desert of Tule Lake, the only other people around being white men with guns pointed at them, some racism crept in. "Why would a white man keep his promise? Look at what they already done." My family returned to the bay with no home, no money and no prospects for either. It was a few years after the war had ended when they were finally released, I think your friends had gotten out a little earlier. My grandfather borrowed some money from our church and bought a truck and headed out to Lodi to see if he could find someone who would allow him to take some plants on credit to restart his business. He said he was shaking from fear the entire way. He didn't know if he would be lynched or even welcome. To his pleasure, there was you friends, on their property as promised. My grandfather would tell us he had to endure many shameful experiences in camp, but he was never more ashamed of himself then on that day. The reason they told us is this. shousuu no akukou ga subete no hito no tame ni hanasu koto wo yurushi nai de kudasai It means "Do not let the misdeeds of a few speak for all". We do not allow bigoted speech in our family.

[@tvdv3416]

@Sabrina Bennett On his behalf, I'd like to apologize to your grandfather for mine doubting him. I really think he held onto that shame all of his life. He was very intolerant of intolerance.

[@gabbybliss5602]

wo no this is an amazing story thank u and god bless u and your family and the Japanese family

[@rickuslastname6305]

"Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological nation plans for it." Carl Sagan "Rights aren't rights if you can just take them away, they're privileges, and that's all we've ever had" George Carlin

[@garylee12345]

This thinking person questions if nuclear weapons are even real !! How do you know they are ? After the bombing of Japan , the Japanese ppl rebuilt back right away & to this day there was no nuclear fall out. The earthquake that hit Japan's nuclear facility within the last decade didn't stop life around it nor the fisherman on that coastline. Things that make you go hmmm 😒

[@stevusbeefus]

@@garylee12345 radiation levels there are still abnormally high, its quite absurd and ignorant to say that nuclear weapons are not real lol. its not some massive conspiracy to pretend they exist.

[@garylee12345]

Is Hiroshima & Nagasaki still populated today ??!! So , why do you blindly believe the fear propaganda !!?? This comment ☝ is the perfect example of wilfull ignorance !! There's weapons of mass destruction in Iraq too right 👎 How many LIES does it take for some to finally start questioning the validity of these things !!??

[@williamminamoto.7535]

What George said is absolutely true.. do you know why.. who.. how.. when.. where.. what.., what’s going on..

[@tvdv3416]

@@williamminamoto.7535 Are you related to Michelle Minamoto?

[@txddyfarquh69]

Sadly, I feel THIS mindset of incarcerating Humans for no good reason other than "Fear" will never go away.....

[@raymondalverez5999]

Gratitude to my ancestors... My great grandfather Wasuke Hirota and family.. Grandfather Wasuke passed away at Heart Mountain, Wyoming... A proud internee, an example for my foundation =ASSIMILATION... Blessed to learn the European ways= SURVIVAL.

[@tvdv3416]

Thank you for making this. The Chiyoji and Hideko Nagatoshi Family Tule Lake Relocation Camp 1942-1946

[@annachristie377]

As an American,I'm so ashamed of what we did, and from the bottom of my heart, I apologize.

[@Someonelol2010]

Gratitude to my great great grandfather who was in those camps we miss you thanks for sacrificing your life for us❤

[@andrewthurman8836]

As a kid I just couldn't understand how this wonderful, talented, patient teacher would ever have been subjected to treatment like that

[@tommystunestoons]

Bad things happen to people during wars. If you think this is bad, don't support war, EVER!

[@kevin6293]

That’s terrible advice.

[@mydogniko]

What kind of fairytale are you living in?

[@Gritino]

The new Australia documentary looking great!

[@misssamartypants]

Sean Mayer You bloody numpty!

[@misssamartypants]

@@PaulRudd1941 You’ve got me there cobber ;) !

[@gullyfoyle3915]

Right, attack a western nation instead of, say, China, which by far and away is more deserving of such criticism. Self-hating western leftists are truly contemptible.

[@gullyfoyle3915]

@@PaulRudd1941 You ridiculous clownish sycophant, you're not a revolutionary, and you're certainly no voice of authority, moral or otherwise... I don't require your permission for anything.

[@D4rthsunny]

what is Australia doing to Asians?

[@lowerclassbrats77]

Fast forward to 2021 and Australia has built and begun filling their own internment camps. If this isn't vile enough they're building more scheduled to open in 2022.

[@user-ji6xd7cl8x]

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[@garomcfbgdd3211]

I told a Coworker about the camps in Australia - that they're sending People there who have committed no crime and without due process. They called me a conspiracy theorist. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[@misssamartypants]

@@garomcfbgdd3211 Queenslander here…. honestly wouldn’t mind being ‘interned’ in one of those camps as I haven’t had a holiday in a while and it looks bloody great!

[@gscryinlikeabitch]

@@misssamartypants I'm sure you'd love being threatened with $5000 fines and imprisonment for not wearing a mask on a balcony then being offered valium to treat the stress from being forced into a camp with a negative test. Hayley Hodgson already spoke out against the immoral practice and look no further than the Standford Prison Experiment to see how that level of power goes to peoples heads.

[@johncole4882]

@@misssamartypants deplorable attitude to have toward your liberties and civil rights

[@Green_Roc]

I've lived in California since 1977 when I was born. I never heard of this story before today. Discrimination is painful to be discriminated against due to no fault of my own, but due to hateful stereotypes that somehow continue down generations. I'm told as recently as today to grow thicker skin (as they said my kind of person is a flaw) seeming to fail to recognize their own bigotry, being treated as less than human hurts so deep, I cant easily put to words the measure of pain that never seems to heal.

[@mc-lb9dk]

I am writing a bio of a lady that spend four years in a Danish concentration camp as a child from 8 to 12 AFTER WWII. The lady, then a child, was in these prisons from march 1945 till February 1949. An issue that hardly anybody knows about. 240,000 prisoners, mainly women and children under 14 spend up to four years in these camps. 17,000 died in the camps. It would be an interesting topic for these series as well. If anybody wants some info, DM me. The danish let these german prisoners initially die from hunger and lack of medicine and froze to death. She survived with her mother by stealing and secretly boiling potato peels.

[@SkyValleyStuff]

the aligns were never the "good guys" in ww2

[@Vivi-c7o7p]

Hi where can i learn more abt this?

[@mc-lb9dk]

@@Vivi-c7o7p I guess only via me. The internet doesn't say much about this issue as it has been covered up for 70 years

[@mc-lb9dk]

@@Vivi-c7o7p Denmark is creating a museum of the largest of all the camps, it should have been openened last year but due to the plandemic it is postponed. So there will be some more openness to it soon but I don't know if they have much first hand info, I doubt if they even have the correct numbers. I have them.

[@mc-lb9dk]

@@SkyValleyStuff Allies include Soviets. Something hidden in the western propaganda. Without them, we would all speak German now. Well, I do, but not native.

[@peterclark6290]

A really great novel that covers this and the ramifications is _Snow Falling on the Cedars;_ so good I had the read it twice, back to back.

[@bonnie92553]

I read that book when I was young and couldn’t believe it… then i reread it when I was older and wiser to know these things did happen 😭it was so sad.

[@geigertec5921]

"History doesn't often repeat per se but it does echo." Looking at you Australia.

[@BashirAhmed-wr7lf]

Two Nations which impressed me the most are Japanese and Germans, who were completely annihilate during the 2nd WW, & today they are the third and fourth largest economies. 👍

[@hmpesky08]

American money made that happen.

[@SuperTrumpMAGA]

@@hmpesky08 , am sure u r talking about Rossiya & China the most closest buddy of US dude !!

[@jecker19000]

Hopefully we can all learn something from this. Seems oddly applicable today.

[@BeBopScraBoo]

because australia is locking up the unvaxxed in camps.

[@garylee12345]

And they don't even have corona. They're simply being accused of being in " contact " with someone. Rise

[@Screencappedhats]

@@BeBopScraBoo that's a batshit crazy conspiracy story but the unvaxxed should have the decency to quarantine themselves from the rest of the responsible people if they're unwilling to do what's best for the good of society and the interest of public health. You don't get to come inside my hatshop if you're not masked or vaccinated. If you don't like it either follow protocol or find another place to shop.

[@Screencappedhats]

@@garylee12345 liar

[@garylee12345]

☝ tyrant ☝ !!!!! Unamerican !!! 💯

[@annachristie377]

I'd like to point out that there was never any Japanese Americans accused or charged with espionage or any of the sort during world war II!

[@dinola3268]

Nice to hear about the US-Concentration-Camps (in German: Konzentrationslager), which I visited some years before. In Germany the US-military-regime condammed all “Lagerkommandanten“ to death. Why not in thr US?

[@gullyfoyle3915]

Well, for starters, because U.S. camps weren't death camps where people were intentionally executed/worked/starved/tortured to death which the German camps were. It's false equivalency to place the 2 on the same plane at all.

[@tvdv3416]

@@gullyfoyle3915 I think that's the German equivalent of a right wing bot/troll. Well written response, though. Perfectly exemplifies how my parents explained to us about their experiences. My father and uncle were the only survivors from their family to survive Dachau, Poland. My Mother was born in Tule Lake Relocation Center. Both terrible experiences, but that's where the similarities end.

[@tvdv3416]

$5000 is nothing compared to what was lost. Homes, businesses, property, family heirlooms etc. For many, the social and psychic injuries impacted them their entire lives. My grandfather was a very devout Buddhist, that is to say he was frugal and mindful of his emotions. He always told us to save diligently and never spend money. Beyond that he didn't like to talk about money at family events, telling us it got in the way. "Important ja-nai!!" he would say. But for all that, periodically he would have panic attacks about having people coming to take everything away and start over. He would lament his age. After he past away we found around 50 savings accounts he'd had opened that nobody knew about in banks that were 2-3 states away. That was in the late 90's. A full 50 years after camp. A few thousand dollars doesn't and a presidential "my bad" doesn't cover that.

[@tvdv3416]

@@ramenlover1727 where were they? My mom was born in Tule Lake

[@tvdv3416]

@@ramenlover1727 Did you ever read the books by Yoshiko Uchida when you were a kid? One of them takes place there. What's really messed up is the people that were sent to crystal city weren't given any compensation because they were from Latin America. They were brought there by the US government without visas. They were stuck there long after the camps were supposed to be closed because the government couldn't figure out what to do. They now a population of illegal immigrants that they created. Bakarashii ne?

[@michaelhuber6476]

currently I have been learning about WW2. I had almost forgot about this but I had remember a couple things from fourth grade that made me seek out the history of concentration camps in America. I am not proud to know that this is apart of my nation's history. It is sad to know that of all I searched on WW2, I never came across the Japanese concentration camps. I had to search for it myself. it seems that was done on purpose. we can not move forward if we cannot accept what happened in the past and try to better this nation so such atrocities never happened again. The only way we can do that is if we learn of our past.

[@reyvargas2913]

A very inspirational documentary. It was wrong to incarcerate the Japanese-American citizens during WW2 just because the color of their skin or their nationality.

[@mariekatherine5238]

I wish the reconstructed camp was there when my family took a cross country trip in 1961!

[@tommystunestoons]

There is no connection between the Japanese internment camps during WWII in the USA and Canada and the covid-19 camps today in Australia. It's two very different situations.

[@andrewwilliams9312]

@@PaulRudd1941 What on earth are you talking about?

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

This is very sad.

[@uranus.tlatoani]

The same thing was done in all the countries at war, the Japanese were brutal with their prisoners, and they say nothing of this.

[@avidreader1072]

Perhaps we can all learn from history. Lets hope so😥

[@f430ferrari5]

The Japanese Americans were 2/3 US citizens. Wake up.

[@ccaa007]

great vid

[@simoncaron6424]

What was the fate of Europeans trapped in Japan during World War 2?

[@aquilesboy198]

Los japoneses americanos sufrieron mucho durante la guerra, muchos de ellos pelearon del lado americano a pesar de que sus familiares eran obligados a pasar condiciones tan denigrantes.

[@joyceharmon2496]

What else could have been done in this situation the entire world was at the brink of extinction. I'm deeply sorry for Japanese Americans had to be imprisoned. Pray we never live through something even close . The world is in a deep pain of hunger lack shelter and boarders . God have mercy on humanity.

[@aquilesboy198]

Jesus Christ saves us from our sins

[@tvdv3416]

Gracias por reconocer esta tragedia, pero no fue relagada solo a Estados Unidos. El presidente Roosevelt utilizó la presión económica para obligar a los países de América Central y del Sur a los japoneses que vivían allí a entrar en campamentos estadounidenses. Esto era más vergonzoso para ellos porque no hablaban inglés y todos tenían miedo de hablar japonés. Los campamentos para los japoneses latinoamericanos y un campamento que alberga a lo que llamaban inmigrantes o ciudadanos que regresaron a Japón o que solo hablaban japonés se mantuvieron en funcionamiento durante dos años después de que terminó la guerra. Cuando finalmente cerraron, los japoneses de habla hispana no pudieron regresar a sus hogares porque fueron traídos aquí sin visas ni pasaportes. Algunos se quedaron, otros finalmente se fueron a casa, pero a partir de 1988, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos pagó las repeticiones. $5000 por los cientos de miles de dólares perdidos por cada familia, pero no reconocieron a los japoneses latinoamericanos que secuestraron y retuvieron sin juicio ni razón. Lo sé porque soy nieto de dos de los que fueron sacados del Perú. El gobierno de Estados Unidos ocultó la existencia de los campos durante 40 años. No fue hasta que Noriyuki Morrita (Mr.Miyagi) escribió la escena en Karate Kid en 1984 donde le cuenta a Daniel-San al respecto que la mayoría de los estadounidenses se enteraron de que esto alguna vez sucedió.

[@EvanZhang-c8r]

53:48 Truer words have never been spoken

[@darthtyranus7683]

They deserve a memorial like everyone else

[@Someonelol2010]

They have one in California and some of the camps have memorials at them now and some got congressional medal of honor (including my great grandfather) who lost his life

[@thomasgoss8181]

My heart goes out to all that suffered. Again it's pure evil in my eye's.

[@dougfrench8231]

Well, that's what the democrats are !

[@tvdv3416]

I'm sorry someone or something felt the need to smear your thoughtfulness. Make no mistake, they failed. Way to represent, my brother🤘

[@playerish]

How come the champion of human rights and the champion of freedom could do such thing to its own citizens?

[@johncole4882]

Why was it so important to keep them out of the west coast? Does anyone know? Is it because the Pacific theater and the fact that Japan was off our west coast?

[@oyanta1118]

Is because California has a high concentration of racist people, they still do even to this day .

[@tvdv3416]

@John Cole. First of all, I assume you know that the first answer to your question is a garbage answer from a garbage person. Your instinct is part of a much larger answer. The War Dept. certainly said that, and I suppose with reason. There was infact a Japanese Zero that landed an attack in Oregon, and a couple of Balloon Bombs made it to the west coast as well. Racism did have much more to with it, but it it had more to do with Roosevelt and his administration's bigotry and less to with California's. After Pearl Harbor, obviously we needed new ships on the Pacific Building them Norfolk, VA and going around the southern tip of Chile would take too long so the decision was made to build some of them in the San Francisco Bay, and Los Angeles ports. There happened to be a large community of Japanese people in both places, which was quite convenient. Roosevelt was also interested getting black people put of the South so his administration courted black folks to migrate to California and build the ships by offering work and an opportunity to buy a new home. Some, but not all had to gaurauntee they would purchase home before the government would provide aid to relocate. When they got here, they found that the work was there, but the promised wage was not, but they had committed to buy these new homes which were built just for them.....oh they weren't built for them and they weren't new. They were the homes of recently relocated Japanese-Americans with refinished floors and a new coat of paint. When the Japanese came back, they found that they had no place to live. The reality of the situation hit both communities at the same time, but there was nothing to do. The homes new occupants had purchased the homes under pressure, this is where Red Lining comes in; and considering where they had just come from, Japanese-Americans had no reason to think anyone would care that the government stole their homes, gave them to banks who sold stolen property to the incoming southerners. So from nothing, they started over. There are certain implications about the lies being told to us about American economy, but that's not what you asked about.

[@MyHandleRocks]

In case the Japanese pilots figured out a way to get kamakaze pilots to fly further into America.

[@justme8837]

Seems like Australia it is doing the same thing with Covid as the excuse.

[@vicmorrison8128]

Please....

[@vicmorrison8128]

I know it was wrong, but I wouldn't have wanted to be Japanese American walking the streets back then.

[@tomt373]

It didn't help that when the Japanese couple still loyal to home country actually sheltered a downed Japanese pilot from the Pearl Harbor attack instead of turning him in, on one of the Hawaiian islands, became known to the American public.

[@nebag1]

Why?????

[@nebag1]

America knew about the Pearl Harbor attack.... That was the reason they could enter WW2 for economic reasons!!!

[@tomt373]

@@nebag1 Economic, or to justify openly supporting Britain, the USSR and China in their struggles against the Axis powers?

[@laecard1778]

@@nebag1 That’s a conspiracy theory, and not even a coherent one. After all, if Japan was going to attack them that’s already a act of war, regardless of how prepared you were.

[@redanilap]

never forget the American concentration camps

[@rockbutcher]

Hey Timeline, advertisements every 7 minutes is a bit much. Even TV isn't that extreme.

[@mxqy]

@32:00 “the humiliation does not stop even after her death”

[@owlnyc666]

Framing, evacuation and relocation camps or CONCENTRATION? Were Japanese from the East coast forced to relocate?

[@owlnyc666]

German POW camps or Concentration camps? Apologices an Repations were made to for the injustice, should the same be done for all the other ethnicities that were victimized? There were No No Boys and Yes Yes Boys. Did any Japanese Americans move to Japan after the war? I do not think it is fair to compare Japanese relocation camps with the German relocation? Camps. I think there was a significant difference in purpose and degree. However I do think it was unjust. However , it is moral hindsight. I would like to think I would oppose the injustice and there were some non Japanese did. But I can't say with certainty that I would have opposed it. 🤔😉😥

[@owlnyc666]

Of course we know that the same thing would never, ever happen any other ethnic minority native born or immigrants NOT EVEN MUSLIMS? 🤔😉

[@krugerfuchs]

This is a war crime

[@tommystunestoons]

Apparently, my comments are triggering to some. It was a world war! Japan was attacking North America. How were Americans in Japan treated during WWII?

[@nebag1]

America knew about the Pearl Harbor attack.... That was the reason they could enter WW2 for economic reasons!!!

[@nebag1]

It could be prevented, but it was better to sacrifice American lifes and enter the war

[@garylee12345]

How do you know that's what really happened !? Seams you'll believe anything. History is a big LIE

[@andreweden9405]

I asked the same question! What became of all the American-Japanese living in Japan in 1941? They don't like that question because they have to admit that the Japanese were so racist that they wouldn't even recognize someone of a different race as a countryman! When you're the most open, generous country in the world, it's easy for things to go wrong because no other country is willing to experiment with what you're doing. But when it does go wrong, they're all the first to line up and criticize! It's like two people witness a horrible car accident with life-threatening injuries. One person does nothing, while the other person at least tries to save someone's life. But when the victim dies anyway, the person who did nothing will say "look, I'm better than you! At least no one died on my watch." Yeah, that's because you didn't even try to do anything! I hope people are able to see that that's exactly what's going on here. When you criticize a country for stuff that you know other countries have done (or you know the other countries have done MUCH worse), that amounts to nothing more than propaganda against that country. Why don't you look up how the Japanese treated the people in Nanking, or what did to early Christian missionaries, or look up the fate of president George H.W. Bush's friends whose plane went down in WW2, and you get back to me about the stupid internment camps. You can take this "documentary" and shove it!

[@laecard1778]

So, were german-americans also put into internment camps? If not that’s a interesting difference in treatment, isn’t it? And whataboutism doesn’t make something better.

[@nebag1]

Deported their own citizens!!!!🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@DavidM2002]

Silent, maybe. Sacrifice, no ? Nothing given up by them willingly.

[@pinemeadowshobbyfarmafruga8319]

Had an awesome interview with this exceptional survivor of the INTERNMENT CAMPS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYiknZmars-Unq8

[@bswogger4656]

This country makes up all of us, including visitors. These people did not even ask “what they could do for our country” and they did it! That being patriotic as well as a major violation. The logic does not make much sense to me but many of that time thought it was only thing to do. Thank all you for your service wanting to help Untied States!

[@bgbrthrswtchngu2012]

Very terrible situation indeed, thrust upon those who didn't deserve it. Much like how Unit 731 basically went and did tons of brutal human experimentation on the Chinese and Russians living in Manchuria. If every country that ever existed had to read off its list of bad deeds, we'd be stuck listening to Bad English, coming from Africa and the Middle East.

[@kevin6293]

No, nothing like unit 731, liar.

[@bgbrthrswtchngu2012]

@@kevin6293 Absolutely right. Because unit 731 conducted themselves more like dr Josef Mengele, whereas all the U.S. did was literallt round up Japanese people. They didn't sew them together or give them smallpox or stick their bound hands in frozen water.

[@kevin6293]

@@bgbrthrswtchngu2012 and it wasn’t “very terrible”, certainly not compared to most other wars. It’s a sad reality of war that some civil liberties need to be temporarily suspended.

[@briannat1086]

Believe the US Constitution guarantees your rights? THINK AGAIN. just privileges...

[@patfromamboy]

The show was called “Your Hit Parade”

[@julietdelgado2193]

Humanity against humanity are all not good and evil. That's why what's happen to us now. Loads more evil people no care in the world. But there are also very good and very kind people but not a lot anymore your only counted it. Now were suffering this pandemic who knows whats nxt. We should all prays our sins and repent pray eveeyday.🙏🙏🙏

[@stevep5408]

I always found the internment of Japanese civilians baffling until recently finding out about the Niaha island incident. During the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese navy believed Niaha island was uninhabited. Instructing their flyers to land on the island to be picked up later. The island was actually inhabited by approximately 80 native Hawaiians and several first generations Japanese Americans. A Japanese navy aviator crash landed on the island. The folks there not knowing about the attack and declaration of war detained the flyer. The flyer convinced the first generation Japanese Americans to help him escape, destroy secret documents and his downed Zero fighter! No reason? No good reason? A fair reason? Considering the capture of a zero fighter in the Aletution islands in 1943 was concidered one of the most important intelligence operations of the Pacific war. It would have taken place in 1941 if not for Nisea of Nieha island?

[@christianbass10]

I hope they watched the Japanese and American veterans meeting each other.

[@andrewthurman8836]

As a child I took piano lessons from a man who worked with my mother at the post office. He was interned during the war. I overheard my mother mentioning to someone about how it had ended his musical career and impoverished his family. A

[@mistyrivers4995]

Someone has to make a movie about this. It can be be very emotional mvie though.

[@oriolesfan61]

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

[@cliffordyamasaki3899]

What's overlooked is that it was for their safety more than anything.watch bad day at black rock

[@gonefishing167]

It’s always easy to comment from hindsight but we weren’t trying to fight a war. There were plenty of German spies in the UK as there were Japanese spies in the USA. My Aunty was married to a man of German descent and he was interred in an Australian camp. After a couple of years he was allowed release if he had a family member willing to vouch for him. My mum did and he ended up staying with my mum and my sister who was only a baby. Dad was away the the Air Force. Was it sad, yes it was but it was war! Heavens, you had Jewish families being incarcerated because they were German!!!! Look what they’d escaped from. Later a lot were able to join armed forces if they wished. It’s sad, many were just ordinary citizens but, it was war and you cannot have enemies from within 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

joop joop

[@wawee1979]

Why has this not been depicted into a movie? They've made Schindler's List & Pearl Harbour. I'm from New Zealand & have read Danielle Steele's Silent Honor & even in her notes say "not based on true events" or something. Is this an American thing by not owning up on things that they contributed too?....cause it happens here as well! Anyhu, that would make a GREAT movie!

[@mikeaguero2875]

You should be the first to make and direct the film

[@f430ferrari5]

There are movies. They are simply not popular to the US audience. Go For Broke was one of the first. It’s about the Nisei soldiers fighting in Europe. Made in 1951. Farewell to Manzanar 1976. Only The Brave 2006. Pat Morita is in this as well as Tamlyn Tomita both of Karate Kid fame. Same with Yuji Okumoto and a bunch of other Asian American stars such as Jason Scott Lee. A more recent low budget movie Go For Broke came out in 2018. Can only hope a major big budget one comes out soon. I believe the only way is focus more on the Texas Lost Battalion. It’s the unit that was saved by the 442 Japanese American unit. This is a start. Another could focus on Solly Ganor a Jewish boy with a strange twist of fate. He wrote a book Light One Candle. He explains how he met Chiune Sugihara a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania. He’s the Japanese Oskar Schindler. He wrote visas for Lithuanian Jews trying escape capture from the Germans. This is another movie in itself. Solly shared how this Japanese man gave Solly some chocolate. The boy was naive and invited Chiune for dinner and he and his wife accepted. Chiune would eventually ended up writing 5-6 thousand visas to help save Lithuanian Jews. The twist is that Solly’s family couldn’t secure visas and Solly was captured by the Germans and held in a camp near Dachau. Solly said one day a Japanese/Asian looking soldier in American uniform came to him. The German soldiers had run off. The soldier was Clarence Matsumura. His family was being interned in Heat Mountain, Wyoming. Clarence gave Solly some chocolate and explained he and the others were Japanese Americans. This is more of a side story. The focus for Solly was about Sugihara. These movies could then spawn off into Japanese Americans in camp and also 442.

[@filomenalompot4415]

During the world war 2 the Japenese came to Philippines , some were good, some were so violent killing the innocent infants!

[@D4rthsunny]

These weren't soldiers.. they were Americans... citizens. most had never stepped foot out the states.

[@loois3431]

Just look at what america did to african-americans even without war, we know what this is all about...

[@tillman40]

After learning about the Nanking massacre, Comfort women and Unit 731, I say this group got off ok

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

joop joop

[@kdthecalis1479]

do you blame the dogs for the wolf’s fault?

[@WillsM85]

Where is Part 1? Anyone have the link?

[@WillsM85]

Got it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4rLmaJ4bN6Uo5Y

[@davidcrowder9603]

Yep they are getting all the camps going.

[@cliffordyamasaki3899]

Japan was an invading army in China and russia,who by the way is the only country to defeat both.two reasons were they thought it weak to surrender and didn't want to take care of prisoners.

[@Lyork]

It is important to remember this shameful part of our history, and to build examples of the conditions in which these people lived, for future generations to see, however; why can't we also do this for our homeless in the U.S. who are now also being treated like criminals. Seems like we just keep making the same mistakes.

[@f430ferrari5]

There is no correlation between what happened to Japanese Americans and homeless today. Japanese Americans were initially put into horse stables. Does the US government of today do this to anybody? Illegals are treated better than how Japanese Americans were treated. Shelters exist. They come with conditions and rules. It’s a choice where those homeless don’t want to follow the rules. They prefer to drink and do drugs and smoke or whatever. Bad behavior is enabled because too much coddling occurs. Japanese Americans are a perfect example as to how when you’re not given any fish you learn to fish for yourself. Homeless are about why do I have to fish when I’m entitled to fish to be given to me for free. That’s the mindset.

[@tkyap2524]

If you were America would you have done otherwise? A contentious situation.

[@shadow7037932]

Especially after what happened during the Niihau incident where Japanese Hawaiians helped a crash landed IJN pilot.

[@tkyap2524]

@@shadow7037932 That episode was a push factor in the mass incarceration. Sympathizers could come from any one of them.

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

joop joop

[@bluedot6933]

just so everyone understands, these camps were voluntary. Japanese could go there if they had no money and no place to stay. No one was forced to go there.

[@RookMedia]

That's not true. The owned businesses and property. It was taken from them. Everything taken then said now you can live on the street or in the camp.

[@bluedot6933]

@@RookMedia do you have any formal education in this?

[@telefunkenyou47]

I want to file a wrongful incarceration suit for 100 million dollars. If you look at similar cases just a civil rights violation arrest warrants millions and that’s one night in jail. Try three years and our 1,600 acer farm. My grandfather was the largest garlic producer in the entire US before the war and the same people who took our farm then are the largest garlic producers in the country today. This is just what was stolen from one family. Three generations have suffered since.

[@ChairmanKim]

America needs to stop preaching about human rights and equality.

[@MyHandleRocks]

Most of the interment camps holding the Japanese was on Native American reservations that the govt took.

[@gabbybliss5602]

I love Japanese I am so sorry this happened

[@HansDunkelberg1]

The subject interests me, but I cannot watch this. The speaker sounds too vulgar.

[@mitchellgolston2726]

Well Sam Walton helped he was a Army intelligence officer at the time .

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[@erikapple8955]

How should the Americans have handled this? Its been proven that Japanese living in Hawaii assisted the attack on Pearl Harbor

[@shadow7037932]

Indeed. Seems like every time the internment issue is discussed, the Niihau incident is covered up.

[@mc-lb9dk]

of course , then you lock up 120k people. The American way. CIA blows up towers in new york and America kills four million innocent Iraki's. Sounds logic to me

[@erikapple8955]

@@mc-lb9dk im only asking a question. Just mentioning that Americas had genuine fears

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

joop joop

[@LtRee96se]

It should have never happened.

[@TropicLightning-]

Research Japanese Unit 731. Comparably the American Assembly center was a minor infraction.

[@lilithiaabendstern6303]

the US was aware of said unit and gave them a free pass after the war in exchange for all their data from human experiments on the Chinese - so what is your point

[@anthonyhuerta8780]

One woman said. OUR SACRIFICE. MOST MILLENNIAL GENERATIONS and after have to MANUFACTURE OPPRESSION. Your just SELFISH HUMANS WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SACRIFICE IS.

[@olchat2012]

Similar, I repeat similar situations happened to native Americans, African slaves, Mexicans, Hawaiians...

[@PK.Civil.Servant]

May ALLAH bless you for becoming voice of un heard !

[@shainemaine1268]

...so wait. If you win, that means you get to take down your internment camps?

[@dllawson128]

I hate to do this, but if we are going to air our dirty laundry here, then lets make sure we don't fail to talk about Japanese behavior, leading up to, and including WWII. They were a damned nightmare, compared to anything seen in the USA. This is a thing called "perspective". It is always good to have perspective.

[@holleymoviestar]

There are several videos Timeline has uploaded on the Empire of Japan.

[@vivians9392]

If they were US citizens, this was a criminal thing to do. Why do you think they came to America? They wanted to flee Japan for their freedom! Shame on our government for causing so much ex- pense on the public and heartache to our fellow citizens!

[@garylee12345]

How do you know what's true or false !? History is a big LIE 💯

[@roberthorst5790]

they also interned germans and italians but nobody is talking about it smh

[@anna67887]

Because it's not the same, and this one was motivated by anti-Asian racism instead of fascists spying on them

[@dewetmaartens359]

We all know that Trump is time traveling. As for Australia, going full circle, Trump strikes again.

[@gabbybliss5602]

ikr i think so

[@FlugHerr]

Check out Australia today. Same thing different excuse.

[@statesrights01]

Thing is.. most Japanese there were in favor of Japan..

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

joop joop

[@insightbytes2136]

Coming to a town near you...

[@Californiansurfer]

❤❤❤ 2023 Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara. 1947. Japanese Americans are released from camps and sent to Chicago and return to Little Tokyo to find Bronzville a black community Great book of Los Angeles 1940. Enjoy great read..

[@Mark........]

American and Australian Chinese take note

[@imone507]

Is still going on with Americans in this country, 🙏🇵🇷❤️🌎

[@andrewwilliams9312]

Marxist inspired Critical Race Theory is an attempt to destroy Western culture and society by framing it's values as White Supremacy".

[@andrewwilliams9312]

"1 million to 1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European people which were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast), 16th- and 17th-century customs statistics suggest that Istanbul's additional slave import from the Black Sea may have totalled around 2.5 million from 1450 to 1700. The markets declined after the loss of the Barbary Wars and finally ended in the 1830s, when the region was conquered by France. Hundreds of thousands of Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. These slave raids were conducted largely by Arabs and Berbers." see link. This doesn't include the Arab trade in black slaves. The Arab slave trade enslaved far more and continued far longer than the Atlantic slave trade.

[@matsteadyy1053]

Japanese American people their fight for American People and American Soldier

[@alasdairmacmillan5359]

AWFUL

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

There always a saying,no matter how bad the United States gets, it's still better than many other countries

[@Dollarkat]

Agreed. Doesn’t it just ache your heart to see college students saying America is no good at all. It’s a level of ignorance I never could have predicted. In fact, Its the last thing I thought we would ever let go of. Like no matter what would happen, we would still have America. Now?……

[@jamesgreenldn]

I prefer living in Europe

[@nebag1]

Bs!!!!

[@misssamartypants]

@@jamesgreenldn Good for you… I don’t think I could handle so many countries on my border…..I like being an isolated Country. We don’t really have any history like Europe though! There’s pros and cons to both.

[@formalbug5716]

Yeah but we're not better than half the nations we pretend to be better than. I'm literally in the process of moving to Vietnam. I'm doing dual citizenship so I can still vote. But I'm definitely not sticking around this shithole country any longer than I have to.

[@taya____]

🥺

[@williamminamoto.7535]

What is not mentioned .. if my Grandfathers people were not taken... after Mid- Way... and the Canal..from August 7..1942... recal PACIFIC...the actions of the Japanese.. making it into the press.. film... would have inflamed the public so badly... they would have burned to the ground.. linched.. driven out of town... every Japanese on the west coast.... study ken burns... the dust bowl.. early 1930’s... read the “GRAPES of WRATH “... and watch that movie with Hank Fonda... John Carradine.,, And Mama... isn’t it a pity... that some create chaos... having planned it’s reaction.. already with solutions...🎺🎺🎺🐎🇺🇸📚🐰🇺🇸❤️😊👩‍🎨🎥🖼✍️✊☝️😃👍🐎🇺🇸🏠🎤🎹🎼Presidential Trump Task Force wtm Speaking Missourah Territory the Missourian Force From the Show me State..💦😹

[@andromeda331]

So horrible.

[@MomentsInTrading]

Democrats. What’d ya expect?

[@vicmorrison8128]

Hypocrite

[@MomentsInTrading]

Heck- I left out- Democrats: The party of Indian slaughter and the trail of tears!

[@SkyValleyStuff]

Meh, their country attacked us. sovereignty used to mean something

[@SuperTrumpMAGA]

US had choked them 1st. then what ?? Research on this WAY MORE, can u read the books dude !!

[@raymondalverez5999]

Manifest Destiny's evil results = $$$$$$GREED.......

[@hagandelevira]

Sup Alex

[@christinashaw3391]

Delightful! 💖🔆🤪

[@j.b.4340]

It kept us safe. Hindsight is very convenient.

[@viciousvictortee1298]

The most decorated unit!