Thread 17945772

Was FDR wrong to detain Japanese people living in America?
What was he supposed to do?

He could have treated them like the people of German ancestry were treated.

>>17945773
German people were no threat to the Americans.
Japanese people loved blowing up Americans on American soil.

>>17945789
German Operation Pastorius aimed at sabotaging dams, electric plants, railroads and chemical factories on the American soil in 1942, and German-Americans with US citizenship were complicit in it.

>>17945909
Interesting.
Thanks for your answer professor.
So was it just racist to intern Japanese and ignore the Germans? Were Chinese Americans also treated harshly?

He should have investigated suspicious individuals, not an entire fucking ethnic group. Unparalleled paranoia.

>>17945772 (OP)
>What was he supposed to do?
Not place an oil embargo on Japan in the first place.

>>17945772 (OP)
>wrong
nope
the little nippers just did their nanking in chyna
war time officials were concerned about jap spies
and some concern about the safety of local japs because citizens were getting rowdy

>>17946086
>He should have investigated suspicious individuals
The time and resources weren't available to do that. I think that would have been an ineffective measure.

>>17945772 (OP)
FDR was wrong for starting a war with Japan that lead to the rise of communism in Asia

>>17945772 (OP)
>Was FDR wrong to detain Japanese people living in America?
Yes, because the order only pertained to the American mainland. The territory with the most Japanese people by percentage was Hawaii, a literal battlefield. The Japanese Americans there were never detained because they were too vital to regular operations at Pearl Harbor.

>What was he supposed to do?
A limited order to merely keep the Japanese at least 20 to 25 miles from the Pacific coast. The decision to exclude them entirely from California, and parts of Arizona, Oregon and Washington caused a great deal of trouble and waste.

There were German nationals in the US collaborating with the Germans
If I had to guess there were probably Japanese doing the same

>>17945772 (OP)
Yes he was since by that point they were American citizens, sure there were some who would inevitably be Japanese spies but that applies to just about every other pop in the US as well and should have been dealt with on an individual basis, it even had a negative impact since a shitload of those Japanese Americans were farmers and detaining them to camps had a negative impact on food production

If he was worried about spies and saboteurs then why didn't he do anything about the jews?

He should've deported them instead.

>>17946975
Wasn't he largely working for them, or at least for the zionist faction? Also, the people who call themselves Jews today are not related to the ancient or biblical Jews.

>>17945936
He did inter some German Americans but they had been a part of America longer and there were more of them. There were hardly any Japanese in comparison, so few they could all be rounded up. If we went to War with England would it be a good idea to round up English who had moved in the last year or so?
Some German Americans really loved Germany more than U.S. or hated the War and became terrorists. It was worse in WW1. Then in WW2 they sent a bunch of Ameri Germans against the Japanese.

>>17946982
Deport possible Spies? Get real. At least they were treated humanely, like the Germans should have done with thiers.

>>17946982
Really dumb idea. Spies must either be kept under close watch, or eliminated. You don't send them home. Interrogating every possibly spy among the Japanese-American population was not a feasible plan, there was no manpower to spare for such a massive undertaking even if it were at all possible to clear so many people of suspicion.

Separating them out from the general population was the most reasonable thing to do. It wasn't fair to the Japanese-Americans just trying to live their lives, but that is war for you. It's seldom ever fair to anybody.