You know how it works…I will leave this forum available until Friday at noon.

Do you think that America’s treatment of German prisoners of war (as seen in the podcast) was a flawed one, given the response to the treatment of Japanese and Japanese Americans? Or do you think the response to German prisoners was the correct or best available option? (Explain why you feel this way). In your opinion, what made the treatment of Japanese Americans so different from the treatment of German prisoners of war?

Can you think of any circumstances in which the government would be right to forcibly remove and incarcerate a group of citizens as a means of protecting the larger nation? In your opinion, what do you think was the hardest aspect of incarceration for Japanese Americans? Do you think something like this could ever happen in America again?

One of the articles for this week discusses the topic of “blood libel” as it was used in anti-Semitic representations of Jews in history.  Do you think that similar anti-Semitic views exist in contemporary society-or is anti-Semitism a thankfully rare occurrence in America? Do you think young people have more knowledge of the Holocaust today-or less? (And what do you think has contributed to this lack of knowledge or greater awareness?) What was the most surprising or enlightening thing you learned from this week’s film, “America and the Holocaust?”