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Narr. by Milton S. Eisenhower, director of the War Relocation Authority. An historical record of the transfer of Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to the American Interior as carried out the the U.S. Army and the War Relocation Authority. 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens. Special attention given to possibility of sabotage & espionage. "Japanese themselves cheerfully handled the enormous paperwork involved." Alludes to the auctioning of personal property by government agencies and businessmen, saying that it "often involved financial sacrifice for the evacuees." Narration says that evacuees "cooperated wholeheartedly," noting that "the many loyal among them felt that this was a sacrifice that they could make in behalf of America's war effort." Bus and private car caravans, shopkeepers' stores, homes, restaurants, fishing boats are shown. Temporary quarters were in "assembly centers," at race tracks, and fair grounds. San Anita (sp.?) race track, a community of 17,000. Depicts camp life: cafeteria, church services, nursery schools, people engaged in war-related work (making camouflage nets for army). Building new quarters in the desert for the final movement to the relocation camps. Smiling Japanese people being carted off on trains. Medical facilities, Americanization classes, schools, internal government, barracks-style housing, irrigation projects in desert. Some evacuees were "permitted" to become fieldhands in sugar beet…
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★★★★ · Propaganda For Shame · donwert · 2014-01-11
This US government film attempts to justify the unjustifiable---the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast during WWII. It peddles the myth that there were actual security concerns although stating that "most" of the victims were loyal. No mention of why Italian-Americans or those of German descent were not similarly treated. Nor of why those of Japanese descent in Hawaii were not interned. The ugly fact is that West Coast Japanese-Americans were relocated because they could be and the forced disposition of their property could be acquired for a song by white Americans.…
★★★★ · Meanwhile, back in Propagandaville.. · Spuzz · 2016-02-14
The preconception that All Japanese Cannot Be Trusted So Lets Move Them Away is explored here obviously.. And, while not over the top as "A Challenge To Democracy" it does provide a more persuading arguement about WHY it was done (although I don't agree with it in the slightest). Once again, the Japanese are all too pleased about this novel American ideas and off they go. They seem a bit TOO chipper about this, as this film purports that they were happily willing to give up their jobs, businesses, houses and way of life to be relocated. Suuuuuure.
Really Makes You Think... · Celecoxib200mg · 2017-12-07
Funny! You hear the allies utter the same arguments that the Nazi Germany used to intern the Jews, perhaps even somewhat more poorly done, yet the Japanese quote ''''''''''relocation'''''''''' unquote or the Dresden Holocaust, or the indiscriminate massacre of civilians in virtually every Japanese city that was firebombed is almost never brought up! I guess if the Axis had won the war we'd here about the Holocaust only in passing, on a chance Wikipedia article we'd find ourselves reading, or an old propaganda film. The history is truly written by the winner. Of course, while you hear people…