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Where Are My Reparations for World War I?
Heartland Institute ^ | 9/19/23 | Clifford F. Thies

Posted on 09/19/2023 7:59:43 AM PDT by Redmen4ever

During World War I, German born males, aged 14 or older, not naturalized as U.S. citizens, were deemed “enemy aliens.” Many of them were arrested and sent to detention centers.

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Can everybody be owed reparations? Yet whose ancestry hasn't historically suffered some abuse?
1 posted on 09/19/2023 7:59:43 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

Uh, my kin did the revolution, civil (union side), WW 2, Korea, VN,........ Guess the pay checks were enough eh?


2 posted on 09/19/2023 8:03:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Redmen4ever

So you’re white? Yeah, you have to wait at the back of the bus.


3 posted on 09/19/2023 8:04:43 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Redmen4ever

I’ve got some Irish in my Heinz 57 blood. Nobody caught hell in America the way the Irish did. The Africans living here need to stop their whining. At least they didn’t have to buy plane tickets to get to “Mexico! The Official Entrance to the U.S.A.”


4 posted on 09/19/2023 8:05:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: Redmen4ever

To be historically accurate, the Japanese-Americans who received reparations for their internment during WWII were American citizens—that was the justification for the reparations.

Enemy aliens are routinely interned. American civilians interned in the Philippines fared much worse than Japanese-Americans here. Don’t think they received anything from the Japanese government.


5 posted on 09/19/2023 8:15:10 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Redmen4ever

The Lutheran Church in the US was made to be Anglican for a while.

The order of service was changed to a variant of the Book of Common prayer.

The German hymnals were burned. My grandfather was a boy, and that began a life long hatred of democrats.

He also was raised to hate the Prussians (since that is why we are here).


6 posted on 09/19/2023 8:15:18 AM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: rktman

Seems to me that spending the war in a detention center is a bargain when compared to being drafted into the military.

Our “reparations” to our veterans is to honor their service and secrifice.


7 posted on 09/19/2023 8:15:57 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

Families who had sons, often multiple sons, sent to fight in WWII, lost generational wealth that took decades to recover. Family farms were lost since there was no one to work the farm and maintain the family income and resources.

My father was one of seven sons and all but one fought in WWII. His mother refused to send the youngest as she already had multiple sons fighting overseas. The family struggled to keep their heads above water and only managed because the eldest daughter went to work for Goodyear (maybe Goodrich at the time) and made enough money to support the family.

As a side note she made good money and not only supported the family at that time, but also took compensation in stock in the company. When she passed away at the age of 90, we nieces and nephews (she had no children of her own) each received several thousands of dollars.

So where is the calls for reparations for those families?


8 posted on 09/19/2023 8:16:47 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: redgolum

Grew up Whiskeypalian. Liked the BoCP very much. When the denomination went Episcopagan in 2003, I left and joined the LCMS. It was there I was told up to WWI services in the U.S. were commonly held in German. WWI changed that in the U.S. and the services switched to English.


10 posted on 09/19/2023 8:32:15 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: Redmen4ever

I think it was pointing out the absurdity of reparations for blacks, Japanese and every other group out there. I don’t think he was actually pushing for it.


11 posted on 09/19/2023 8:37:05 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: CFW

The story of the Sullivan brothers still resonates. The loss of one close family member is enormous, the loss of five could be devastating. There is no way to ensure that all sacrifice equally, and no amount of reparations can make it fair. Our freedom, like our salvation, is bought at a heavy price. What we owe to those who paid the price is to use our freedom well.


12 posted on 09/19/2023 8:39:21 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

In a small town I lived in growing up there was the two story “German American Bank” building. It was carved in the marble across the top facade.
To this day, you can see where the word “German” was chiseled off.

People pass by and wouldn’t notice or understand today.


13 posted on 09/19/2023 8:39:46 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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> Can everybody be owed reparations? <

Of course. But by golly, it’s a complicated process. For example, France owes Germany for the Napoleonic invasions. Note the plural there. Napoleon did it more than once. And Germany owes France for all sorts of bad stuff. Who owes who more?

Can such a mess be sorted out? Yes. The UN should appoint me High Commissioner for Reparations. I will then collect a big salary and decide things will the help of my Magic 8-Ball.


14 posted on 09/19/2023 8:40:03 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: redgolum

My grandfather farmer referred to his German neighbors as Pennsylvania Dutch. Referring to German ethnicity pre and post WW1 was not popular—and I recall this still in effect by the elderly in the early 60s.


15 posted on 09/19/2023 8:55:08 AM PDT by whistleduck
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To: Redmen4ever

Not only WWI...

But, also, in WWII, 11,000 Germans (including some American-born) were sent to internment.

Italians were sent to internment during WWII, too, but at a much smaller number.

Only Japanese Americans received reparations (to the tune of $20,000 each in the 1990’s, the equivalent of $45,000 today).

That’s how the reparations idea took off. That’s what everyone overlooks.


16 posted on 09/19/2023 9:00:06 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Redmen4ever

You know, on second look. That very last sentence looks like he literally may want reparations for WWI German Americans. Amazing…


17 posted on 09/19/2023 9:04:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Redmen4ever

I’m 6’6” tall. My entire life I’ve been discriminated against by clothing manufacturers, sports car makers and bed companies. Where are my reparations?


18 posted on 09/19/2023 9:10:23 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: hanamizu

There’s a backstory to the reparations paid to citizens of Japanese descent and to permanent resident aliens who were subjects of Imperial Japan, a total of about 80,000 people, by reason of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988:

Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR was informed, by code breakers, that Japan was calling on Japanese-Americans along the west coast to commit sabotage. To reveal this information would inform the Japanese that their code was broken; and, so, it was held secret not only for the duration of the war, but for another fifty years after its end. Only in 1996 was our breaking of the code declassified. Even when the Congress debated the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the military justification of the internment of Japanese-Americans was still not revealed. The internment, therefore, looked arbitrary, without a military justification.

Similarly, when the U.S. Supreme Court considered the matter in 1944, it wasn’t aware of the military justification. Hence there were three dissenting opinions saying that FDR’s order was unconstitutional because it was based only on race. Even in the overturning of the underlying decision by a U.S. District Court in 1983, the military justification was unknown.


19 posted on 09/19/2023 9:17:29 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: DesertRhino

The anti-Germanic hysteria of Americans in general is a glaring example of how easily led are most people. Renaming streets,food,institutions,and killing innocent,loyal pet dogs for the reported ,but unconfirmed,deeds of someone half a world distant certainly appear insane acts to me.Yet “loyal,freedom-loving Americans” did all those things.

Slightly less evil but stupid are the various destruction of perfectly usuable goods based on some political memw. Does anyone think smashing beautiful Japanese dishes actually hurt the Nipponese war effort? Or burning some sport star jersey that you paid a lot of money for is really nothing but burning your own money in a hissy fit?


20 posted on 09/19/2023 9:25:09 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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