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Why were Japanese Americans put in internment

camps during WWII?

Source 1: Government film explaining internment from 1942.

Source 2: Government report on Japanese Internment from 1983 based on
declassified government documents.

Which do you trust more? Why?​

User Ammad
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The japanese americans were put into camps because they thought they were spies or saboteurs

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Source 2, source one is most likely biased against Japanese Americans
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