Japanese internment - a podcast by BBC World Service

In February 1942 all Japanese Americans were ordered to internment camps.

They were viewed as a threat to US security during World War II.

Photo: A Japanese American family preparing to go to an internment camp.

(Credit: Dorothea Lange/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.)

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