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Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants. ....
Email Joseph Ichiuji, bags packed, kissed his mother goodbye and got a pep talk from his father. Then he shipped out to serve in the U.S. Army in the European theater of World War II. But though his destination was shared by thousands, Ichiuji’s 1943 journey began in a very different place than most Army recruits. When he volunteered to serve his country, Ichiuji was confined at Poston War Relocation Center, an internment camp in southwestern Arizona. “Here was my chance to prove I was a loyal American citizen, to serve my country,” the Japanese American recalled in a 1999 oral history for the Hanashi Oral History Archives, which collects the reminiscences of Japanese American war veterans. “I thought that was the only way to get out of the camp.” He would go on to help liberate the Nazi concentration camp Dachau in April 1945. ....