From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!hocda!spanky!ka Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Japanese Internment Camps Article-I.D.: spanky.234 Posted: Tue Mar 8 15:45:52 1983 Received: Thu Mar 10 02:12:28 1983 References: spanky.223 I recieved three responses to my query as to how the WW2 Japanese internment camps were dealt with in history classes. Everybody had heard of them before this. David Simen learned about the camps in junior high: "We were expected to be shocked and, as well as I can remember, we all were." This is close to my own experience. However, Judith Schrier did not hear anything about the camps in any history courses she took: "The most striking thing I remember is when my Sophomore Physics lab partner, a Nisei, told me about his own ex- periences in a camp. They were sent to an old army camp in (I don't remember exactly which state, but Nevada or Colorado, maybe) during the winter. The buildings were not heated or insulated, and there were not sufficient blankets. His grandmother died during the first few weeks there." Unm-ivax!collier didn't respond to my question, but described a wartime three stooges short that "dealt openly and rather degrad- ingly with a squinty eyed and very buck toothed mass of 'escaped Japs from the internment camp'." As he points out, the camps were not particularly secret--in the wartime environment few peo- ple (other than the Japanese) were bothered by them. Kenneth Almquist