Eric L Muller
1) Lawyer, jailer, ally, foe: complicity and conscience in America's World War II concentration camps
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Relocation Authority lawyers. The morally ambiguous remit of these attorneys was wide and often contradictory, including overseeing the day-to-day administration of the camps, settling internal disputes between inmates, managing conflict between detainees and their government captors, and providing legal...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. Some citizens were deemed loyal and were freed, but one in four was declared...
3) Free to die for their country: the story of the Japanese American draft resisters in World War II
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English