Posted on 03/06/2020 5:08:38 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
The Philadelphia metropolitan area has a rather large Italian population. Yet despite this, the majority appear unfamiliar with the history of their ancestors in the United States. Such is the case of the forgotten internment camps of Italians during World War II. Years ago, while working on a history project in middle school, my grandfather (long since deceased) told me a story about events that occurred during World War II that the majority are not familiar with. His father, who worked at a Stetson Hat factory that was once located in Kensington, had immigrated to the country from Sicily. After Pearl Harbor was bombed, his status in the United States changed; in the blink of an eye, he went from hard-working Italian immigrant to “enemy alien” to an internment camp.
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This story was on one of the history type channels quite a few years ago.
A couple of interesting points. They were treated worse than the Japanese and there really were Japanese Americans who spied for Japan contrary to what we are constantly told.
My mother’s family were Italian immigrants. There were internment facilities in the Los Angeles area where POWs were brought from Europe.
My great-uncle Andy used to go entertain them with Italian songs on Saturday nights!
Can’t be true....the Left has told us only Japanese were put in camps during WW2.
The father of a friend of mine was in Italian Air Force during WWII. He was ordered to do a reconnaissance flight over the American lines. The plane they assigned him was a WWI bi-plane. He said it had fabrique rips in the fuselage and wings. He said are you crazy? They said no. He had to go. He flew over the American lines landed in a field and surrendered.
They sent him to an Arizona POW camp. He said that about once a week all the prisoners would escape and go to Mexico and get drunk. The Americans would come and gather them up in the morning and take them back to camp.
He stayed in America after the war.
who has forgotten them? who?
i mean libtards don’t teach us history in public schools anymore.
what they mean by this is ‘why have we stopped using this as a racial wedge issue against whoever is currently our political enemy?’
They always talk about the Japanese internment camps and totally forget about the Italian and German ones.
After Pearl Harbor was bombed, his status in the United States changed; in the blink of an eye, he went from hard-working Italian immigrant to “enemy alien” to an internment camp.
I doubt this story.
The Italians in San Francisco and on the West Coast were monitored and were not allowed on the streets after dark.
If they had windows facing the Ocean, they had to blackout cover the windows at night.
The local cops knew who they were and made sure that the teens and young adults were off the streets after dark.
A friend had older brothers who were Combat Marines in the Pacific. He became a Marine officer afterwards and served in Korea.
Yeah, the entire 442nd regimental combat team were a bunch of spies.
Both the FBI and US Naval Intelligence told FDR the Japanese Americans were no treat whatsoever.
“ threat”
Mother spoke about German POW’s who worked on the family farm in Elida, Ohio. They sheltered in the old chicken coop. Ma said they were all nice guys. Probably happy to be out of the fight...
I suspect you have no idea what the FBI and Naval Intelligence told FDR.
First heard this story from family members who knew people who were sent to internment.
No, it’s not covered much in history textbooks, so people think it never happened.
What happened to Japanese Americans is more well known, but still others were painted by the same brush of “enemy.”
Just like during the Nazi Holocaust, there were huge numbers of non-Jews sent to the concentration camps to be killed. Included were political prisoners, Roma, some Polish Catholics, Mennonites, etc.
History of oppression is not always correctly recorded.
And I know damned right well you’ve never studied the subject.
There were around 425,000 German POWs in 700+ camps in the U.S. during WWII, some even in Alaska.
I was born and raised in the Dorchester section of Boston,and we had Camp McKay that held 1800 Italian Prisoners of War. - Tom
I remember seeing the prisoners cleaning the beach in S.Boston....Carson Beach,I think.
Were they Germans with US citizenship or were they German nationals living in the US. Those are two very different categories.
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