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1-20-15

The American Internment Camp You Never Heard of

by Jan Jarboe Russell

FDR’s Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of Japanese, also allowed the Roosevelt administration to intern German and Italian immigrants and their American-born children.

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The American Internment Camp You Never Heard of

by Jan Jarboe Russell