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If one can, I urge visiting one of these camps. You'll see many such photos on display. But for me it took feeling the brutal heat of the surrounding desert in
by lelandfe 5y ago
If one can, I urge visiting one of these camps. You'll see many such photos on display. But for me it took feeling the brutal heat of the surrounding desert in Manzanar. There is no shade, no AC. In the summer, it gets up to 110º. In the winter, it barely breaks 40º. In every photo you'll see a cloud of fine dust on the ground. It hurts.
And the US jailed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans there.
For those who cannot visit, it's worth seeing how inhospitable the location is: https://goo.gl/maps/wz7NTbhMMYTid4b26 https://goo.gl/maps/wz7NTbhMMYTid4b26
- joveian 5y agoLess well known, there was also internment of Alaska Natives in inhumane conditions. One camp had a mortality rate above 10 percent. https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/haunted-by-world-war-ii-internment https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/haunted-by-world-war-ii-... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-forcibly-detained-native-alaskans-during-world-war-ii-180962239/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-forcibly-detain...