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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe : Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps /

"In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Relocation Authority lawyers. The morally ambiguous remit of these attorneys was wide and often contradictory, including overseeing the day-to-day adm...

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Autor principal: Muller, Eric L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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