Lawyer, jailer, ally, foe : complicity and conscience in America's World War II concentration camps / Eric L. Muller.

"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 administ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Muller, Eric L. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Subjects:	United States. > War Relocation Authority > Officials and employees. Government attorneys > United States > History > 20th century. Government attorneys > Psychology. Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945. Japanese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States. Role conflict. United States. > War Relocation Authority. Employees. Government attorneys. Internment camps. Japanese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. United States. 1900-1999 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xix, 283 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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