There was a difference, apparently we only interned Italian and German nationals, where with Japan we apparently interned Japanese that had already obtained citizenship. That and we paid the Japanese reparations where we didn't the German and Italians.
My guess is that the Japanese had seen a lot of recent immigration relative to the Germans and Italians. But I don't know.
BTW, only those who were connected to the big shots in Japan (like the Emperor) were interned and only temporarily. And the camps weren’t run like prison camps. I’ve worked in some of those places under harsher conditions (cbt. engr.—cbt. type training).
My guess is that one big reason that Japanese Americans were interned while the German Americans and Italian Americans were not is that FDR was a racist just like his mentor, Woodrow Wilson. FDR could have desegregated the armed forces during World War II. FDR chose not to. Truman did it.
“———we only interned Italian and German nationals, where with Japan we apparently interned Japanese that had already obtained citizenship-——”
The nisei,or American born Japanese, were also detained-—they didn’t obtain citizenship,they were citizens at birth. Then we turned around and drafted them,for heaven’s sake.An absolute disgrace.
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