MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show June 27, 2018
Germanamericans and italianamericans didnt all get put into internment camps during world war ii, right . They werent rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. Of the axis powers, it was only the japaneseamericans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. Why was that . Why was it just them . In 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. He was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u. S. Government locked up japanese americans. Much to his surprise, peter irons stumbled upon a whole b...