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14 Green Bag 2d 283 (2010-2011)
The Lost Internment

handle is hein.journals/grbg14 and id is 291 raw text is: THE LOST INTERNMENT G. Edward White H E EVACUATION AND INTERNMENT of Japanese residents of the west coast during World War II is now regarded as one of the notorious episodes in American legal history, one in which thousands of persons who posed no risk to the American war effort were subjected to curfews, forcibly re- moved from their homes, and detained in prison camps for the du- ration of the war and in some instances beyond. Apologies and repa- rations to surviving victims, and to their descendants, have served as a partial culmination of the affair, but it remains a prominent and awkward episode in our past. Another evacuation and internment of residents of the United States occurred about the same time. Although that episode has re- ceived some scholarly treatment, and was described in the report of a 1982 government commission, it remains largely unknown to the general public and to many members of the legal profession. This is a narrative of the episode.' G. Edward White is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, created in the last stages of the Carter administration, issued its report under the title Person- aIjustice Denied in 1982. For the details of its creation, see Dean Koblhoff, When the Wind Was a River: Aleut Evacuation in World War 11 183-184 (1995). See also Ryan Howard Madden's An Enforced Odyssey: The Relocation and Internment of Aleuts During World War II (unpublished dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 1993). All those sources rely on civilian and military records from the time of the evacuation and on personal interviews with Aleut survivors and their descendants. 14 GREEN BAG 2D 283

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