America's Japanese Hostages: Peruvian Japanese In The United States During World War Two (Praeger Studies On Ethnic And National Identities In Politics)

America's Japanese Hostages: Peruvian Japanese in the United States During World War Two (Praeger Studies on Ethnic and National Identities in Politics)

Connell uncovers a little known World War II top secret program. The United States demanded that Latin American governments deport?or allow the United States to take?anyone of Japanese ancestry and place them in camps in Texas and New Mexico. The plan was to trade them for American civilians held by the Japanese.