American white people I meant in the title; circa WW2. Thus spake (title quote) Zarathustra, a.k.a. Mark Twain Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Cemetery, Tule Lake, 2002, mixed media on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum Autumn foliage California has now become a far country ---Yajin Nakao So, what were the camp conditions? Military style, if anything. Windows without restrooms, and no running water. From March 10 August, 1942, more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans were forcibly interned in concentration camps. The living conditions were less than ideal, as the above pictures indicate. The houses were communal-style living, with little or no insulation against extreme heat, or cold. Camp illnesses, like dysentery and typhoid fever were unwanted denizens. Predictably, children and the elderly suffered more than other internees, in contracting these diseases. Of course the camps were built in remote areas, and of course they w...
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