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nowhere near as bad as Nazi death camps
'''''Farewell to Manzanar''''' is a first-person account of a Japanese-American girl whose family was forcible relocated from California to an [[ internment camp]] in the Midwest, due to U.S. government fears that Americans of recent Japanese descent would be disloyal during WWII.
'''''Farewell to Manzanar''''' is a first-person account of a Japanese-American girl whose family was forcible relocated from California to an [[ internment camp]] in the Midwest, due to U.S. government fears that Americans of recent Japanese descent would be disloyal during WWII.
In contrast to Nazi [[concentration camp]]s, internees at Manzanar had:
:cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called The Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation's #1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Manzanar-Japanese-Experience-Internment/dp/0553272586 From the publisher]</ref>
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