From the October 29, 2016, Japan Times "List of Japanese-Cubans sent to internment camps during World War II found."
i was completely unaware that there were also Cuban internment camps. I knew about the ones in the United States and Canada.
Three hundred and fifty Japanese-Cubans were sent to internment camp by the Cuban government in 1942. Effort was made to contact these, mostly men, in the 1980s and 100 former detainees were found. In the U.S. President Roosevelt authorized the interment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans.
The pro-American administration of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista followed suit.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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