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Minidoka War Relocation Center Idaho 2012 27
From the archives: a photo of a barracks building at Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho.
During World War II, there was a shortage of building materials. Like Internment Camp buildings at Manzanar, these structures originally had only tarpaper as siding. This one has been upgraded.
After the War Relocation Authority (WRA) released US citizens of Japanese ancestry, and Japanese nationals, to return to the community, these buildings became the desire of local farmers. They were purchased and reused locally. Waste not want not. They were hauled to nearby ranches. Some became storage sheds. Others were reused as chicken coops. That caused a few of the barracks to be saved from destruction over a period of decades.
Eventually, I am told, the National Park Service purchased a few of these structures from local farmers and returned them to the prison camp site.
People who lived during World War II have explained that the internment of US citizens without due process was a necessary wartime evil. Not my opinion but — apparently — a lot of people were thinking this way at the time. The President — or his advisers — was among them.
I've been to WRA Japanese internment camp sites including Poston, Minidoka, Tulelake, Heart Mountain, and Manzanar. I've also been to a couple of the Department of Justice camp sites. Many people of Japanese ancestry who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area were sent to the WRA camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. It must've been quite a shock to be sent from the mild climate of the Bay Area to remote Wyoming.
Because the Italians were Caucasian, white officials were convinced they could predict the Italians' behavior, but not that of the 'inscrutable' Japanese. This argument proved to be the central racist motif of the relocation and internment story. It was used primarily to justify Japanese internment, not only by local functionaries in cities like Madera, but by top government officials in California such as Earl Warren, and by some in Washington, including Secretary of War Henry Stimpson.
— Stephen Fox from The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
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Minidoka War Relocation Center Idaho 2012 27
From the archives: a photo of a barracks building at Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho.
During World War II, there was a shortage of building materials. Like Internment Camp buildings at Manzanar, these structures originally had only tarpaper as siding. This one has been upgraded.
After the War Relocation Authority (WRA) released US citizens of Japanese ancestry, and Japanese nationals, to return to the community, these buildings became the desire of local farmers. They were purchased and reused locally. Waste not want not. They were hauled to nearby ranches. Some became storage sheds. Others were reused as chicken coops. That caused a few of the barracks to be saved from destruction over a period of decades.
Eventually, I am told, the National Park Service purchased a few of these structures from local farmers and returned them to the prison camp site.
People who lived during World War II have explained that the internment of US citizens without due process was a necessary wartime evil. Not my opinion but — apparently — a lot of people were thinking this way at the time. The President — or his advisers — was among them.
I've been to WRA Japanese internment camp sites including Poston, Minidoka, Tulelake, Heart Mountain, and Manzanar. I've also been to a couple of the Department of Justice camp sites. Many people of Japanese ancestry who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area were sent to the WRA camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. It must've been quite a shock to be sent from the mild climate of the Bay Area to remote Wyoming.
Because the Italians were Caucasian, white officials were convinced they could predict the Italians' behavior, but not that of the 'inscrutable' Japanese. This argument proved to be the central racist motif of the relocation and internment story. It was used primarily to justify Japanese internment, not only by local functionaries in cities like Madera, but by top government officials in California such as Earl Warren, and by some in Washington, including Secretary of War Henry Stimpson.
— Stephen Fox from The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
Please do not copy this image.
Journalism Grade Image.
Source: 4,200x1,900 16-bit TIF file.