Actually, the Jewish concentration camps were also WWII. WWI was about alliances of paranoia that finally exploded into a chain of countries declaring war on one another. The treaty at Versailles later broke the German economy, setting up a lovely path for Hitler to promise better days. Afterwards America was wondering what the hell it was doing in the conflict in the first place, leading to a period of isolationism that lasted until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
That, however, is still no excuse for the Japanese internment. By 1941, America knew full well what was going on in Europe and in the Nazi death camps. German and Italian families were also places into camps, though not to the same extent as Japanese. The majority of these people were US citizens and American-born, leaving us with a big question mark as to what the hell FDR was thinking. I suppose the moral high ground is supposed to be that they weren't being systematically tortured and killed.
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That, however, is still no excuse for the Japanese internment. By 1941, America knew full well what was going on in Europe and in the Nazi death camps. German and Italian families were also places into camps, though not to the same extent as Japanese. The majority of these people were US citizens and American-born, leaving us with a big question mark as to what the hell FDR was thinking. I suppose the moral high ground is supposed to be that they weren't being systematically tortured and killed.
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