The hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II [video 81min]

Eric Muller examines the U.S. government's decision to force 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps during World War II. He chronicles the government's process of determining the loyalty of these citizens and the legal challenge it faced at the end of the war. Muller is a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. He presents his book at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.