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.
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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.
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We didn't inter Germans because we were importing their scientists !
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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
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As in...the women gave themselves to GIs so that they would not starve.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Reading this in our current context makes me shudder.
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Thankful for those who saved Japanese businesses during Internment & returned them to their rightful owners when the travesty was ended.
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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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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
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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.
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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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Horrible part of US history. Reason #94,7385,635 why we need to learn from history and not repeat it.
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