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