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World Service,17 Feb 2012,10 mins

Japanese internment

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In February 1942 all Japanese Americans were ordered to internment camps. They were viewed as a threat to US security during World War II. Photo: A Japanese American family preparing to go to an internment camp. (Credit: Dorothea Lange/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.)

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