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Lawyer, jailer, ally, foe : complicity and conscience in America's World War II concentration camps

Muller, Eric L., author

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\"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 administration of the camps, settling internal disputes between inmates, managing conflict between detainees and their government captors, and providing legal representation for prisoners outside of the camps. In re-creating the daily lives of these WRA attorneys, Eric L. Muller, a leading expert on Japanese American relocation and internment during World War II, seeks to capture historical subjects as three-dimensional, flawed human beings\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9781469673974

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D769.8.A6 MUL	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE