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To: Mears
Where were the German camps?

Are you kidding?

Wikipedia:

German-American Internment refers to the detention of German and German-American citizens in the United States during World War I and World War II. Unlike the Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II and the Italian Americans who were subject to the same fate, these internees have never received an apology or reparations.

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I don't know much about Italian camps but they existed as well.

148 posted on 02/04/2014 6:14:32 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

There were camps for Germans and Italians but a large percentage of them were not even citizens.

They were an extremely small percentage of the population of those ethnic groups that were living in the U.S.

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150 posted on 02/04/2014 6:31:13 PM PST by Mears
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To: Fightin Whitey

“Where were the German camps?
Are you kidding?

Wikipedia:”

Thanks for the link. My grandfather was a child of German immigrants, his parents immigrated from Germany in the early 1900’s, they both passed away before WWII. My grandfather worked in a plant that manufactured engines for air force fighter and bomber planes during WWII, his work was building and servicing the engines. He was in his mid 30’s at the time raising a family. According to my grandmother he apparently never got bothered by the government even though he had an easily recognizable German last name. Strange. Never heard much about those camps and their existence.


197 posted on 02/05/2014 1:32:31 PM PST by ScottfromNJ
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