War Against Humanity — Season 1, Episode 29: U.S. Detention, Nazi Deportation, and Death in the East - February 1942, Pt. 2

Episode synopsis

Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an order to intern all Japanese-American citizens on the West Coast of the United States, while the Italians open up new concentration camps to deal with their ethnic enemies in the Balkans. At the same time, a large group of Jews attempts to escape Europe by boat, with disastrous consequences.

About War Against Humanity

When the Second World War breaks out, it is at first largely a war between one side of totalitarian aggressors against a portion of the democratic countries of the world defending other totalitarian states. From the first day of the war in Poland, as it already is in China, this will be a war against humanity.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Outbreak of the War Against Humanity - 5 March 1940
• E2System of a Nazi Terror - April 1940
• E3The Strategy of Terror Bombing - May 1940
• E4The European Migration Crisis - June 1940
• E5The British Blitz Spirit is a Myth
• E6The Few Who Opposed Hitler - German Resistance in 1940
• E7Vive la Résistance! well, not really... - French Resistance 1940
• E8Royal Resistance in Benelux and Scandinavia 1940
• E9Resistance in China - Myth or Reality?
• E10Poland Will Not Bow to Nazis & Stalinists
• E11Sending the Jews to Madagascar? - July 1940 - April 1941
• E12The Wehrmacht's License to Kill the Innocent - May 1941