Originally Posted by DMorris
History has been distorted and the facts trampled about the internment, relocation, deportation, etc. The Department of Defense declassified the MAGIC cables in 1977 and published eight volumes of transmissions that totally vindicate the Roosevelt administration's response to the threat of a fifth column operating in the U.S. Another great work on this matter is the book - Magic:The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During WW II by David Lowman NSA official.
1. There was only one Japanese-American even charged with treason -- and that was Toyko Rose, who spent the war in Japan, not America.
2. There were no acts of sabotage or espionage carried out by Japanese-Americans either before or after Pearl Harbor.
3. Japanese-Americans fought bravely in the European Theatre while their parents and sisters were being kept in internment camps.
4. Italian-Americans were in no way considered suspect because of their background.
5. German-Americans were not only not considered suspect but one of them was even allowed to have a fairly important job in the fight against the Nazis: Dwight D. Eisenhower.