You know that saying, "if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all"? Well, apparently John L. DeWitt didn't...but he sure had a lot to say.

DeWitt's "Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast" is a vitriolic official document that directly contributed to the creation and implementation of E.O. 9066. Its original version was heavily edited and rewritten because it was so incredibly racist—even in the midst of the rampant anti-Asian racism in the 1940s.

Regardless, the sanitized version still convinced FDR, the great convincer himself, to sign E.O. 9066…and we all know what happened from there.

Not only did "Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast" claim that Japanese Americans simply couldn't be trusted because of their race (which is a horrendous conclusion), it also outlined a plan of just exactly how to gather them up and put them away.

The report is now widely reviled despite its influence on national security during the war. If you feel up to it, or just simply want to be outraged, the link above takes you to a scanned copy, where you can flip through one awful page after another.