evacuation at WW2?

Question

history coursework. Have any good links for historians views on evacuation in world war 2? or your personal opinions on evacuation? thanks.

Answer 1

Given the climate of opinion on the US West Coast, Japanese evacuation was inevitable. Japan, of course, had no real possibility of doing damage to California, but that did not seem so reasonable to a California, now panicked by Pearl Harbor, that had backed the anti-Asian immigration legislation of the 20s, and now, worse, had prosperous Japanese farmers and impoverished refugees from the dustbowl.

In defense, the Japanese camps were nothing like those the Germans established: There were decent, though cramped, living conditions, good food and opportunities for education.

In any event, almost all Japanese were allowed to return -- though their property might not still be there -- by 1943. Many of their sons had been released earlier to join the US military. I believe a Japanese-American regiment was the most highly decorated during the Italian campaign.

Answer 2

Hi, I have a few good website that you might have already seen, but here we go. I am just assuming you are talking about the evacuation of children? Sorry if thats wrong! Ok...

Spartacus, WW2 evacuation, a really good history website and if you go to the evacuation section and scroll down you get a number of quotes from different historians.

History Channel Website
This has the history channel historians doing there thing. Good simple answers and views. Wort h taking a look.

John D Clare website
This is another great site. Not so much for views but facts. It might give you some idea on how people approched evacuation.

Those are just a couple, please message me if you want some more. Sorry if you arn't doing children, you didn;t really say in your question!

Hope I helped....!

Answer 3

What evacuations? Where? Do you mean the forced removal of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast? The internment as "dangerous" of nearly 11,000 persons of German ancestry? Or the evacuations of Jews and Poles in Eastern Europe?