Japanese American

  • Executive order 9102

    While Executive Order 9066 often occupies the center of the historical stage as the legal catalyst for the internment of Japanese Americans, Executive Order 9102 was the engine that powered the logistics of that displacement. Issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 18, 1942, this order transitioned the internment process from a purely military…

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  • The Japanese who liberated the Dachau Concentration camps complex.. The soldiers were from the 442nd Infantry Regiment an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The unit is most known as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry aka Nisei.Although some of them had been in internment camps themselves,…

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  • There are a few amazing things about the death march from Dachau which had started on April 24,1945 and was headed to the Austrian border. Firstly it was a cold late April and early May because it was still snowing . Secondly there were still a few thousand victims alive but the most interesting thing…

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