I sometimes refer to the facilities I mention above as “concentration camps.” Nobody should for a moment take this to mean that I equate them in any way with the horrific death camps and slave-labor camps of Nazi Germany, places like Auschwitz and Dachau. Nothing in modern history equates with the terrible reality of those places. But the fact remains that the “assembly centers” and “relocation centers” were indeed American concentration camps by any reasonable definition of that term.
