The Colonel and the Pacifist

This isn't so much a person A actually interacts with person B as it is a history of two men that were on two different sides of the internment One was a man named Karl Bendetsen who was basically the second-most involved military man in what led up the internment (second to De Witt himself), while the other was a Japanese man who ended up interned at Tule Lake.

The book goes into very considerable detail about both men and in my own opinion that book could have been condensed since it's on the borderland of being boring. It is interesting to note that Bendetsen swallowed hook line and sinker the various outrageous rumors that were spread after the attack on Pearl Harbor and took them as being real things rather than the trash that they were.

This is the part that is the core of the book and the best part about it and that's just what led up to the internment at the higher levels of government and military. Much of the material on what happened to those being interned is pretty much covered in other books.

The effects of the media and the willingness of certain men in the internment to lie under oath is also pointed out quite clearly.

The book is 382 pages long with a fairly decent number of photos but they're mostly of people involved in decision making and frankly aren't all that interesting. There are 43 pages of notes plus more material in the appendices.

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