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internment

[in-turn-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜrn mənt /




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The 1994 case about the internment of Japanese American citizens is still relevant today as the Supreme Court has failed to fully contend with its legacy.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

In California, language related to the internment of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar National Historic Site, as well as the history of Indigenous people in Death Valley and Muir Woods came under scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

By 1940, new policies ordered all German nationals - Jewish or not - into internment camps.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

Yossarian was the squadron’s leading authority on internment and had already begun plotting an emergency heading into Switzerland on every mission he flew into northernmost Italy.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Yes—I think it should have been repealed in that period when we were taking stock of the World War II internments.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2025

"The section that will be used is occupied by the dead from a century ago and will not affect any recent internments," FWC said.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2024

Jay Tidmarsh, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, suggested the World War II internments as a possible comparable framework.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

In 1988, Congress formally apologized for the internments, and provided reparations checks of $20,000 to 82,000 victims.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

The populace has not molested alien enemies, and their government has not indulged in wholesale internments of enemies’ subjects.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood




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