'Let's Move On': Stories of Japanese-American internment camp recovered
KATHALEEN ROBERTS Albuquerque Journal First Posted: January 18, 2012 SANTA FE , N.M. — One entrepreneur ran a gambling den beneath the camp barracks. Another published a newspaper called the Santa Fe Times. Some men brewed sake. Others grew their own vegetables to trade for meat with the hospital and the state penitentiary. During World War II, the U.S. government detained more than 100,000 people of Japan ese descent in internment camps spread throughout the West. From 1942 to 1946, the Santa Fe camp held 4,500 of those men behind barbed wire at a site two miles from the Plaza in what is now the Casa Solana neighborhood. The Department of Justice and the FBI labeled them "the worst of the worst." Educated and successful leaders, they were powerful men whom officials deemed the most likely able to assist the enemy if they chose to, Simon said. Neil Simon's DVD " Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japan ese Internment in Santa Fe "