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Although we cannot compare the horrors of the Nazi Concentration camps to the American "Relocation Centers", there are many similarities. Both of the groups of victims were of the minorities, and these cultures were somewhat of an enemy to the leader of their country. These groups (the Japanese in America nearly two thirds of which were American citizens, and the Jews, Gypsies, the Poles, Slovaks, Communists and other enemies of the state in Germany and …

…getting the undesirables "out of the way" were identical. Hitler almost succeeded, and he would have, if it weren't for the vigilant Allied troops, and the resistance of loyal French, German, English, and American citizens. I don't believe that Franklin Delano Roosevelt meant any harm to the Japanese when he signed the bill condemning them to prison. Maybe he thought he was helping them by removing them from public ridicule. The world may never know.