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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Responsibility for the Holocaust: Reply to Saumya Debray
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 15:08:00 EDT
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>/* mat@mtx5b.UUCP (Mark Terribile) /  4:12 am  May 31, 1985 */

>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.

It is the job of the police to protect citizens of Japanese or other descents.
If the gov't. could muster up the manpower necessary to move the Japanese
to internment camps, it would seem likely that it could muster up the
strength to protect them from mobs.

How do you know that "fervor against 'the Japs'" was necessary and was
directed (by most Americans) towards Americans of Japanese descent as well
as those living in Japan?

Why do you suppose such fervor might have been necessary?  Is it not
possible that most Americans wer chiefly motivated by the desire to
defend their home (country) rather than by hatred of Japanese?
Why do you construe such self defense as "sacrifice?"

>I'm not saying that the action was right --- only that it was well
>intentioned.

Hitler also thught what he did was for the good.

>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.

You can't excuse Roosevelt by showing that Hitler was worse.

>	from Mole End			Mark Terribile

				Mike Sykora