Behind Barbed Wire: Executive Order 9066 and America's Concentration Camps

Welcome back to WW2 Stories. I'm Philip Champion, and today we're going to confront one of the darkest chapters in American history—a chapter that reveals how quickly fear and prejudice can transform a democracy into something unrecognizable, how easily constitutional rights can evaporate when wrapped in the language of national security, and how ordinary American families became prisoners in their own country for the simple crime of their ancestry.