Ostensibly the centers imposed strains upon the American Japanese family. Nonetheless the residents of the centers found many ways to combat the centrifugal trends of the families. And many residents found solace in the movement: adult women had a respite from food preparation; young women found more freedom generally; kids “had a ball”; even older men developed hobbies and pastimes they never would have in the traditional family. Everyone enjoyed freedom within the centers and any number of associational outlets in clubs, dance groups, orchestras, sports, and newspapers. They moved about freely and policed themselves. The race paradigm has always emphasized the barbed wire and soldiers with bayonets. But the Nikkei police had charge inside the centers, and as the leave policies indicate, the infamous barbed wire was thoroughly, absurdly porous. In contrast, in Nazi concentration camps everything was regimented and demeaning. The Nazi vision constantly sapped the mental health of prisoners. Michael Neufeld noted that in the Mittelwerk camp the authorities periodically performed public hangings, often hanging several people at a time. It was fueled by “the pitiless process of natural selection” that destroyed the bonds between prisoners. Levi described existence as akin to Hobbes’s “war of all on all.”