Order in Council 9066

The order in Council 9066 was an act of the executive during the Second world war promulgated by the US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt the February 19th 1942 which its quality of commander-in-chief to exert powers of war in order to lock up certain ethnicities in Concentration camps by preventive measure.

Internments during the Second world war

This order authorizes the commanders of the armed forces U.S. to declare certain zones of the the United States in military zone " in which people or all people can be exclues". A third of the territory of the States Unies could be concerned by this delimitation (majority in the American west) and possibly used against which have a " foreign ancestor ennemi"

After the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which inserted the United States in the Second world war, approximately 120.000 Americans of Japanese origin were locked up in camps during the war. Among the interned Japanese, 62% were " Neisi" (of the American Japanese of second generation thus born in the States Plain) and the remainder of the " Issei" (Japanese of first generation i.e. foreign residents). The losses undergone by those affected by this measurement of internment during this period are estimated at several billion dollars.

The Secretary with the war (Henry L. Stimson) was to help these residents who were excluded in these sectors by placing at their disposal transport, food, the shelter, and all other conveniences.

Although the Americans of Japanese origin by far were affected by these measurements, several thousands of Italian-American and Americans of German origin were also subjected to similar restrictions, including the internment.

Oppositions

Paradoxically, one of the ways which was opposed more to Washington with the internment was the director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover. During the Second world war, after almost a democratic decade of domination in Washington, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hoover was one of some republicans to have some power. Its opposition to the internment is ironic, if it is considered that during his career, it expressed a certain opposition to the civil liberties… Eleanor Roosevelt was also opposed to the order in Council 9066 and with tried without success to convince his/her husband not to sign it.

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