HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Fred Zinnemann, Ultimate Victory, Executive Order 9066
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Ater bombing of pearl harbour, roosevelt signed execuive order 9066, establishing 10 internment camps for naional security. Many along west coast, but also in east, wyoming, colorado. Over 100,000 japanese american men, women, children, relocated an detained. Internment now recognized as a violaion of human and civil rights. 1980s, us government oicially apologized and reparaions were paid to survivors. Rosenberg, a date which will live, intro and part 1. Historical memory is now inseparable from the modern media, even people"s tesimonies and experiences are shaped in their interacions with diverse media efects. We can analyze what we call reality only as it appears in memory, milan kundera, we know reality only in the past tense. We do not know it as it is in the present, in the moment when its happening, when it is". The present moment is unlike the memory of it. Remembering is not the negaive of forgeing, remembering is a form of forgeing.