Tule Lake Was One Of The World War II American Concentration Camps
It was one of ten which held Japanese Americans
Incarceration in the camps was a huge injustice
Tule Lake was one of the ten American concentration camps during World War II which incarcerated Americans of Japanese descent and their Japanese immigrant parents. These were barbed-wire enclosures built in remote and desolate areas of the United States after the war with Japan began. The people lived in barracks and had armed military guards watching over them.
The camps were not the same as the horrible concentration camps in Europe where Jewish people were tortured and killed. However, they held innocent people as prisoners, most for the duration of the war.
After President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, the military commanders of certain areas were given the authority to remove any persons as they saw fit. General John L. DeWitt was over the Western Defense Command. He chose to enforce the racist order against the people of Japanese ancestry in the West Coast area of the United States.
The order could have been used against people of German and Italian heritage also, but it was purely a racist move against only those who were Japanese. It affected 120,000…
