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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC Feb 19

    Two months after Pearl Harbor, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, which led to World War II internment of Japanese Americans—today 1942:pic.twitter.com/jApej5qo0r

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      2. Slash 🇺🇸  ❌#QFD Lifted, for now  ❌‏ @mericanvet Feb 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Do you know it was lessons learned from WWI? German Americans were committing sabotage on American seaports, railways, munitions factories and other infrastructure before we joined the war. I am not saying it was the right thing to do.

        11 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
      3. Chimera in a Coal Mine‏ @Coalminetweety Feb 19
        Replying to @mericanvet @BeschlossDC

        Note that we didn’t inter Germans in WWII then, even after we joined the allies. Racism is ugly but not confronting or acknowledging it is bad too.

        7 replies 9 retweets 83 likes
      4. Elaine Rogers‏ @nonnielaine Feb 19
        Replying to @Coalminetweety @mericanvet @BeschlossDC

        We didn't inter Germans because we were importing their scientists !

        3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      5. shawna page‏ @slpage63 Feb 19
        Replying to @nonnielaine @Coalminetweety and

        We intered millions of German soldiers after the war...we couldn’t even feed them all. Germany had no men between ages of 18 and 30.Our GIs took advantage of that and the hunger and poverty...they used women up for food

        4 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
      6. shawna page‏ @slpage63 Feb 19
        Replying to @slpage63 @nonnielaine and

        As in...the women gave themselves to GIs so that they would not starve.

        4 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      7. Chimera in a Coal Mine‏ @Coalminetweety Feb 19
        Replying to @slpage63 @nonnielaine and

        If our soldiers treated enemy civilians and captured combatants that way, it is terrible, but it wasn’t something we did legally and officially as policy. The subject was how did we treat our citizens of various national origins or heredity.

        2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      8. JPM‏ @YaManning Feb 19
        Replying to @Coalminetweety @slpage63 and

        The incidents in Germany by US troops were extremely limited, not allowed and swiftly punished when caught. As for the treatment of Japanese that was terrible.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. Chris Haun‏ @ChristopherHaun Feb 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Why did the US government not lock up the Japanese-Americans who were living in Hawaii? If there was such a threat on the west coast, then certainly there was a greater threat on the US Islands that had already been attacked and bombed by Japan.

        3 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
      3. Chris Haun‏ @ChristopherHaun Feb 19
        Replying to @ChristopherHaun @BeschlossDC

        Of course to lock up the Japanese Americans on Hawaii would have been to totally shut down the total economy because they were 40 % of the population. Racism can be very practical.

        2 replies 5 retweets 20 likes
      4. Charlⱷne Nakamura‏ @OPMom90405 Feb 19
        Replying to @ChristopherHaun @BeschlossDC

        That's correct. They only locked up those the owned boats and Buddhist priests. But not Japanese Christian priests. US Govt needed the labor to work in the sugar cane fields. Sugar cane was used to make fuel.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Chris Haun‏ @ChristopherHaun Feb 24
        Replying to @OPMom90405 @BeschlossDC

        Yeah and they were called Japs. The other Axis powers were not called Krauts and Wops. I think a lot was about how successful the Japanese-Americans were in agriculture and fishing and retail in California. And don't ignore the Chinese Exclusion Act. Asians were the other

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      1. American Times Film‏ @ExportedFromMI Feb 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @GlennKesslerWP

        Reading this in our current context makes me shudder.

        0 replies 3 retweets 30 likes
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      2. Kelly L.C.R.‏ @kellylcr Feb 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @UKProgressive

        Thankful for those who saved Japanese businesses during Internment & returned them to their rightful owners when the travesty was ended.

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      1. Terry Morse‏ @terrymorse Feb 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Upheld by the Supreme Court in Korematsu vs. United States, one of the worst decisions in the Court's history. "Distinctions based on color and ancestry are utterly inconsistent with our traditions and ideals" —Justice Murphyhttps://constitutioncenter.org/blog/korematsu-a-decision-that-will-live-in-infamy/ …

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      2. G. Behn‏ @gwbehn Feb 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @Maggie100862

        Please remember that people of German, Italian & Roma ancestry and others of European & Asian descent (& even many Jews) were also sent to camps, interrogated & surveilled by the FDR Administration. Below is a map of some German Internment sites....pic.twitter.com/c4V3K8NEAY

        2 replies 4 retweets 8 likes
      3. Edith Tracy‏ @EtTideh Feb 19
        Replying to @gwbehn @BeschlossDC @Maggie100862

        So true my father came from Italy as young boy became a citizen and was able to fight during WW11 after extensive background checks, but he told us how the Italians and Germans were also held course not as many as the Japanese people but thankful his family was not taken.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. G. Behn‏ @gwbehn Feb 19
        Replying to @EtTideh @BeschlossDC @Maggie100862

        I'm German/Russian/English & had two German & two Russian relatives (including an aunt) taken into custody & interrogated for days, even though 2 were in US military! Luckily none interned but family had friends who were (mostly accused falsely by neighbors who didn't like them).

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      2. Parmesan & Pinot‏ @ParmesanPinot Feb 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Horrible part of US history. Reason #94,7385,635 why we need to learn from history and not repeat it.

        1 reply 4 retweets 37 likes
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