Obvious Parallels

I do think this is true, but I also saw so many areas in which this was a very different experience from the Holocaust. No one was murdered here intentionally; the Japanese Americans were encouraged to take classes to be come more "American"; they were allowed to order goods from catalogs and allowed to serve in the military. They were even paid wages for the work they performed.

Still, one of the most interesting aspects of this is that supposedly was for the safety of the Japanese Americans themselves, which, sadly, probably has a kernel of truth to it. In years/ decades past...

"This type of language boiled over into deathly violence time and time again. In 1871, at least seventeen Chinese immigrants were hanged in makeshift gallows by a large white mob in Chinatown in Los Angeles. In 1885, an armed mob forcibly drove a Chinese population out of its Tacoma, Wash. homes, menacing its community with rifles, breaking into houses and smashing doors and windows. The same year, white workers in Wyoming massacred 28 Chinese coal miners.

In each instance, these vicious attacks did not result in increased protections for Asian Americans, but further institutional debasement. In Tacoma, the city’s mayor, Jacob Weisbach, participated himself; in Los Angeles, the manslaughter convictions of eight men were ultimately overturned on a legal technicality. In 1882, the widespread anti-Chinese sentiment was burnished into law with the Chinese Exclusion Act, marking the first time the U.S. had ever barred a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the country."

From: time.com/5834427/violence-against-asian-americans-history/

Would there have been widespread violence against Japanese Americans if they hadn't been "inducted" or "interned"? Probably..... though I'm not sure we should take this on its face as the real reason for the camps.