On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive order 9066 calling for the internment of all Japanese Americans. These camps were nothing compared to the concentration camps in Germany and Poland at the time, but nonetheless were inhumane and racist towards those who had done nothing wrong. These camps were started out of fear, did not meet basic human rights to those inside them, and most people at the time saw nothing wrong with them. World War II was a stressful time for the American people, and especially, their president. The Germans had allied with Italy and Japan to form the Axis powers and they were quickly taking over the Eastern Hemisphere. The U.S. had not yet entered the war and was trying to maintain the neutrality they had started the war with, but with the Depression going on and so many people needing jobs the war was a great opportunity to get those people working again. They were an industrial powerhouse at he time being able to produce war materials faster than any European country could imagine. Hitler was a smart man, no matter how many bad things he did, and did not aggravate the U.S. because he knew once they entered the …show more content…
As they progressed it became clearer that some were actually loyal American citizens and had no reason to have ever gone to the camps in the first place. But these people were tried case by case because the fear was still there. These people got to leave and often became farmers in the Midwest or become migrant workers elsewhere in the U.S. On December 18, 1944, the government announced that all relocation centers would be closed by the end of 1945. This was good news to a lot of the internees, but not all were so satisfied with this decision and argued that they should all be closed as soon as