Questions for Photo 5 1. The boundaries of all but the most
isolated of the relocation centers were defined by guard towers
and barbed wire fences. The boundaries were patrolled by
military police, armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. Why do
you think the government thought such measures were necessary?
2. Why do you think WRA photographers were forbidden to take
pictures of guard towers? 3. In 1943, a WRA report stated that:
"the contrast between the barbed wire and the confinement within
Manzanar and the observable freedom and motion for those
immediately outside, is galling to a good many residents."¹ Do
you think that these conditions made the relocation centers into
prisons or concentration camps, as some historians have argued?
Discuss. ¹1943 Report of the War Relocation Authority, cited in
Jeffery F. Burton, et al., Confinement and Ethnicity, 45. * The
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