The federal government began to hastily construct incarceration camps, where they would send men, women, and children who had been accused of no crime. Maybe you’ve heard them called internment camps, but FDR initially called them concentration camps, because that’s what they were doing—concentrating people into one confined place.[24] But as word of the German concentration camps spread, the U.S. government stopped using the term publicly. They changed the term to internment, but today, members of the Japanese American community largely resist this name. “Internment” is what happens to
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