In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas.
—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Soon after, he was hired as a war crimes investigator and visited concentration camps during the World War II liberation to document Nazi crimes.
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