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JAPANESE, GERMAN AND ITALIAN MANDATORY REGISTRATION

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JAPANESE, GERMAN AND ITALIAN MANDATORY REGISTRATION
JAPANESE, GERMAN AND ITALIAN MANDATORY REGISTRATION BROADSIDE
Rare broadside issued by the U.S. Department of Justice and printed on both sides, 10 ?" x 16", ca. mid-January, 1942. Above the printed name of Attorney General Francis Biddle appears: "NOTICE TO ALL ALIENS OF ENEMY NATIONALITIES The Unites States Government requires all aliens of German, Italian, or Japanese nationality to apply at post offices?for a Certificate of identification?.between the period February 9 through February 28...Go to your postmaster today for printed directions?". The message is also printed in German, Italian, and Japanese. Interestingly, instructions at the bottom of the broadside instruct that the verso of the poster should be displayed in California, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. That side instructs that aliens report within a five-day window, Feb. 2-7. This was of course done intentionally - those states had large populations of Japanese who would, soon enough, be sent to internment camps for a good part of the war. On Feb. 19, President Roosevelt allowed the military to intern all those of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast and neighboring states. The registration of aliens ordered here was undoubtedly used to locate many of those sent to the internment camps which of course also included a great percentage of American citizens. Some soiling, still very good.