Digital History>eXplorations>Japanese American Internment>The Decision to Intern>Father Hugh T. Lavey

Colonel Bendetsen showed himself to be a little Hitler. I mentioned that we had an orphanage with children of Japanese ancestry, and that some of these children were half Japanese, others one fourth or less. I asked which children should we send…. Bendetsen said: “I am determined that if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must go to camp.