Politics: Concentration Camp or Summer Camp?

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“Concentration Camp or Summer Camp?” 

By Robert Ito 

MotherJones.com 

September 15, 1998 

Since the end of World War II, Holocaust revisionists throughout Europe have vehemently denied that the extermination of 6 million Jews ever took place. The gas chambers? Zionist propaganda. Zyklon B? A heavy duty delousing agent. 

But the rewriting of camp history isn't just a European obsession. Over the last two decades, an equally determined band of homegrown revisionists has fought to paint a rosy picture of America's own concentration camps: the ten "relocation centers" where over 120,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. 

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Photograph by Toyo Miyatake.