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9 items
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The Story of Pacific Coast Japanese Evacuation (ddr-densho-156-176)
An address delivered before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco by Colonel Karl R. Bendetsen.
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Excerpt: Testimony of Karl R. Bendetsen (ddr-densho-1007-1834)
Karl R. Bendetsen's statement to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians defending the argument that incarceration of Japanese Americans was a national security matter which he believed was supported by wartime intelligence, known as MAGIC. He also disputes claims of harm and prison-like living conditions in the camps.
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Japs Must Move Despite Crops (April 23, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-767)
The Seattle Daily Times, April 23, 1942, p. 7
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Testimony of Karl R. Bendetsen at Hearings on H.R. 4110 (ddr-densho-122-304)
Hearing to accept and implement the finding and recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC)
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Japs Here May Be Sent to Idaho (April 24, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-769)
The Seattle Daily Times, April 24, 1942, p. 3
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Evacuated Japs Protecting Disloyal, Says Col. Bendetsen (June 8, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-815)
The Seattle Daily Times, June 8, 1942, p. 5
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American Concentration Camps VOLUME 4 April, 1942 (ddr-densho-372-4)
Volume 4 divides into three sections. Description about this volume reads directly from the book as follows: Section 1 contains archival documents from April 1942 about the growing opposition of western officials outside of the West Coast to having Japanese Americans moved to their localities. Section 2 contains the Federal government Surveys of Public Opinion dated …