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From: mat@mtx5b.UUCP (Mark Terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Responsibility for the Holocaust: Reply to Saumya Debray
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>  or the concentration camps we had in California for Americans of
>  Japanese descent.  Of course they were only interned not killed,
>  but still, it was a violation of their civil rights, they lost
>  their properties and businesses and a couple of years of their
>  lives...it was still a concentration camp right here in our 
>  U.S.A.

Yes.  But for what it is worth, part of the motivation for moving the people
of Japanese ancestry out of the general population was to protect them, and
prevent killings and riots.  The wartime fervor against ``the Japs'' (which
was necessary to support the superhuman effort and sacrifice that won the war)
was a great hazard to the public safety, especially on the West Coast, where
invasion paranoia reigned supreme.

I'm not saying that the action was right --- only that it was well intentioned.
Further, a number of people around Roosevelt argued against it.  Had anyone
among Hitler's advisors argued against Hitler's ``struggle'', he would have
been removed from his post and executed.
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