![]() His family was first forced to live in converted horse stables in Santa Anita Park, a racetrack in Arcadia, California, before being sent to the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arizona and finally to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. They Called Us Enemy, the George Takei graphic novel, focuses on Takei’s life as a Japanese-American during World War II. The cover of ‘They Called Us Enemy,’ the George Takei graphic novel, courtesy of Top Shelf Productions Only approximately 11,000 people with German ancestry and 1,881 Italian-Americans were interned - a tenth and a hundreth, respectively, of the number of interned Japanese-Americans. Though German- and Italian-Americans were also sent to internment camps, it was on a much smaller scale. (Not that it was okay to intern the other 38% either.) Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese people in America despite that 62% of those interned were American citizens. ![]() Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. In 1942, Takei’s family, along with 120,000 other Japanese-Americans, were put into internment camps for the duration of World War II. ![]()
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