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24 - The Politics of Equilibrium

Friends and Enemies on the Outside

from Part III - The Demise of Relocation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2018

Roger W. Lotchin
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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To end with a final gruesome contrast, how were the two kinds of centers terminated? When Allied military advances made it impossible to transport prisoners to the death and concentration camps by truck or train, Hitler commanded that all inmates be killed. That prompted a series of death marches to the West. In the United States, the Supreme Court ruled against the centers in in late 1944. Counterintuitively, a majority returned, in good physical health, to the West, by bus or train, not on foot. Although the Nikkei faced complex problems upon return, the WRA did little to resolve them. The Nikkei coped in their traditional cooperative manner. Like millions of immigrants before them, families sent out pathfinders to investigate. If appropriate, relatives followed. A majority went right back to their former supposedly jaundiced homes. But why would they? Because Californians were not as biased as traditionally portrayed.
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Japanese American Relocation in World War II
A Reconsideration
, pp. 293 - 304
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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  • The Politics of Equilibrium
  • Roger W. Lotchin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book: Japanese American Relocation in World War II
  • Online publication: 24 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108297592.026
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  • Roger W. Lotchin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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  • The Politics of Equilibrium
  • Roger W. Lotchin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book: Japanese American Relocation in World War II
  • Online publication: 24 April 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108297592.026
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