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Post: An Act of Bastardry
Forum: General WWII Discussion
Assigned Moderators: pdf27, George Eller, Nickdfresh, Rising Sun*, flamethrowerguy
Posted by: Rising Sun*
Original Content:
So the Japanese interned in America during WWII think they were badly treated?
Just heard a radio interview with the author of this book
http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress/books/EmptyNorth.htm who said that not only did Australia intern its Japanese when war began (including one non-naturalised Japanese who held a commissioned rank in the intelligence section of the Royal Australian Navy!), but after the war it classified many of them as merchant seamen (which they weren’t) so it could send them and their families back to Japan penniless, after confiscating their assets.Many of the children couldn’t speak Japanese to any useful extent.
Many families had no way to accommodate or support themselves in post war Japan, isolated and without community support.
It reflects the generally remorseless attitude Australia had towards Japan and Japanese during and after the war, typified by running war crimes trials against the Japanese much longer than Britain and America.
Doesn’t alter the fact that it was an act of bastardry.