Re: OT: Physicians for a National Health Program

["Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> And who benefited from what they were forced to leave behind?  Their
property was sold for pennies on the dollar to white "Christian"  Americans
and Canadians.  Nazi Germany did much the same thing to their  Jewish
citizens.

There was not a universal standard. Some neighbors looted the
Japanese-American's property and expressed virulent racial hatred. Others
helped and protected their neighbor's property, planted there crops and
tended to their interests. In any case none were put to death as an official
"final solution". Comparing it to Nazi concentration camps is a bit extreme.
For the record the were white "Christians" of German and/or Italian ancestry
who were detained and treated poorly. Those folks were not detained as long,
but they were detained.

"Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Just Looking wrote:
> >> enough is enough and you have to act.  we set up camps for japanese
living
> > in the US during WW2,
> >
> > All that was done by clever slight of hand moves. It was not done
directly.
>
> And who benefited from what they were forced to leave behind?  Their
> property was sold for pennies on the dollar to white "Christian"
> Americans and Canadians.  Nazi Germany did much the same thing to their
> Jewish citizens.
>
>
> > The regions the Japanese lived in were more or less ceded to military
> > authority first. Then the military said it would be too tough to figure
out
> > a Japanese soldier from a U.S. Citizen of Japanese descent, so it had
them
> > moved to camps.
>
> That's not quite the way several of my Japanese friends remember it
> happening, but then, the did receive "fair" (snerk) compensation...