. >> we continue our visit to ohama, nebraska, with heather fryer, whose book "rem-to-democracy" examines the united states' use of internment camps during world war ii. >> internment in various forms had actually gone on since the creation of the first indian reservations really. when i started this study i became really intrigued with how many people were living in these hastily built cities, camps enclosures and in world war ii, and turned out there were 367,000 people moved into the west during world war ii. i wondered hough they came up with the idea that the government could move people in a place they wanted them to be, create a community that made them adopt life ways that were supposed to make them more american -- but they were quite american and doing quite well to begin with -- and then release the people when the government decided they didn't want them there. and going back to things thick the japanese american internment camp the people who organized and developed those were people borrowed from the indian bureau, because it was the reservation system that was really the fi