atpcliff
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Hi!
Actually, in WWII no one called when they saw a German wandering around, because the one's who saw the German guy were German, and everyone in town was German. Germans made up about 60% of Americans back then.
Everyone knows about the Japanese internment camps, where Americans and legal aliens who were of Japanese descent were forcibly removed to interrnment camps during the war over security fears (luckily they weren't extermination camps!).
The Feds planned to set up similar interrnment camps for those of German and Italian descent living the US also. However, after they realized they'd have to luck up 2/3s of everyone in America, which meant they wouldn't have enough troops for the military, they scrapped the plan. The did arrest leaders in the German-American and Italian-American groups and detain them for the remainder of the war, in their own special camp.
I hope they start the draft soon.
cliff
LRD
Actually, in WWII no one called when they saw a German wandering around, because the one's who saw the German guy were German, and everyone in town was German. Germans made up about 60% of Americans back then.
Everyone knows about the Japanese internment camps, where Americans and legal aliens who were of Japanese descent were forcibly removed to interrnment camps during the war over security fears (luckily they weren't extermination camps!).
The Feds planned to set up similar interrnment camps for those of German and Italian descent living the US also. However, after they realized they'd have to luck up 2/3s of everyone in America, which meant they wouldn't have enough troops for the military, they scrapped the plan. The did arrest leaders in the German-American and Italian-American groups and detain them for the remainder of the war, in their own special camp.
I hope they start the draft soon.
cliff
LRD