Comment by ck2
16 years ago
These weren't "camps" they were prisons. Maybe some nicer than others but just try leaving one.
There were also "camps" with barbed wire and towers to watch for people trying to escape so they could be shot.
They interviewed a living survivor of a camp like that on History Detectives where he had painted scenes from the camp on the back of cut up posters.
I am sure there were ranges of camps where more elite families got better treatment.
People also lost their homes/land, their way of life. This was a very bad way to treat anyone, let alone innocent American civilians.
Revisionist history that "it wasn't so bad" is insane.
To be fair, he delivered citations, and you're painting the worst picture that is at all rational. I'd love to see citations defending your point of view as well.
Once something is deemed bad, the most extremely anti-that things are accepted as truth, for no other reason than the complete opposite of wrong MUST be right. Most of the time, it's wrong again, because, as grand parent poster said, things are complicated.
That's like saying Holocaust was quite OK since most Jews survived