Posted on Dec 9, 2016
A Lookback at the Decades-Long Embargoed Incarceration Camp Photos
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History is important so we hopefully do not make the same mistakes again in this world
A Lookback at the Decades-Long Embargoed Incarceration Camp Photos
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I will say our "Concentration Camps" were way better than the German Ones in WWII but a Prison, is a Prison, is a Prison.
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Goes to show how outside appearances influence peoples perception. The Largest Ethnic Group in the US are Germans. There were tons of People in the US whose families had imigrated within a few decades. Many Italians who were here were only 1st or second generation. I never read of any large-scale round up of them.
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SGT David Baker
Camps existed, and rules for selection of internees were similar; first or second generation were scrutinized, and membership in pro-German organizations such as the German-American Bund were major red flags.
"A total of 11,507 people of German ancestry were interned during [WW2--it also happened during WW1]. They comprised 36.1% of the total internments under the US Justice Department's Enemy Alien Control Program. Of the 254 enemy aliens evicted from coastal areas (excluding Japanese Americans), the majority were German." --wikipedia
Wikipedia also has an article on internment of Itailan-descended Americans. There were a lot fewer. My memory tells me that most Italians were not suspected because they were perceived to have fled Italy, and thus not in sympathy with the Fascist government. Italian societies existed, but unlike the German-American Bund, they had no ties to or visitors from the Italian state.
The Democrats did intern a whole lot more Americans of Japanese ancestry than any other group.
"A total of 11,507 people of German ancestry were interned during [WW2--it also happened during WW1]. They comprised 36.1% of the total internments under the US Justice Department's Enemy Alien Control Program. Of the 254 enemy aliens evicted from coastal areas (excluding Japanese Americans), the majority were German." --wikipedia
Wikipedia also has an article on internment of Itailan-descended Americans. There were a lot fewer. My memory tells me that most Italians were not suspected because they were perceived to have fled Italy, and thus not in sympathy with the Fascist government. Italian societies existed, but unlike the German-American Bund, they had no ties to or visitors from the Italian state.
The Democrats did intern a whole lot more Americans of Japanese ancestry than any other group.
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1stSgt Eugene Harless
SGT David Baker - Thanks, I knew that some Ethnic Germans and Italians were probably being watched or even incarcerated I am surprised at the numbers. It still pales in both the raw numbers and percentages of Japanese Americans interred ( some 120,000) .
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