After war was declared German-Americans and Italian-Americans, about 5, 000, were rounded up. With in a year most of the 5,000 were released. The hatred became focused on the Japanese-Americans. Being of their race and people automatically thought they were with the enemy, that attacked Pearl Harbor. Of the 127, 000 Japanese-Americans living in America, about two thirds were born American citizens, but this did not stop the suspicions and hostility directed towards them. Almost all of the Japanese-Americans lived …
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…too few Americans had calm to raise questions of that kind. In the camps Japanese-Americans were treaded pretty well. In the Manzanzar Relocation Center, in the California Desert, a mother and her children wade through the stream near the camp. In Tule Lake Relocation Center, costumed Japanese-Americans entertained fellow internees and a Farmer does his old farming job in the camp. Some women got paid up $19 a month to weave camouflage netting for the army.