Insulting the memory of FDR [were Japanese internment camps wrong?]

WorldNet Daily ^ | March 20, 2004 | Les Kinsolving

[Travis McGee]

If we lose the current war, it'll be because we don't have the grit and determination of the previous generation. We'll be paralyzed by guilt, self doubt, acrimony and backbiting. Just look at the AG prison story, or the eagerness of our media to trumpet the enemy lie about a non existent "wedding party" at a remote guerrilla fighter transit house.

[John Wong]

I agree that it is true that Germany did NOT directly attack the United States, it should be pointed out that many German Americans were convicted of espionage and sabatoage against the United States.

For example the book Personal Justice Denied on page 288 points out that there was the German-American League, Deutschamerikanische Volksbund or otherwise was also known as the Bund, that was headed by Fritz Kuhn, and CLAIMED to have a membership of MORE than 200,000. It was engaged in pro-Nazi demonstrations AGAINST the President Roosevelt Administration.

And in Hitler's Undercover War: The Nazi Espionage Invasion of the U.S.A. by William B. Breuer it points out on pages 43-44, page 168, and page 201 that NUMEROUS members of the above Bund organization was recruited by German agents to GATHER intelligence information in the United States!

On pages 321-324 of his book, Mr. Breuer provides a listing of the German Americans, Germans and other American citizens who were convicted of spying for Germany during World War II.

However, the book Personal Justice Denied points out on page 193 the above facts and information did NOT stop the Selective Service from allowing German Americans to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces to fight against the Germans, while Japanese Americans had to go through loyalty verification to determine if they should be ALLOWED to enlist.

If it is logical to intern Japanese Americans, then I afraid that German Americans should also been interned since the U.S. Government was well aware that they were involved in espionage.

I mean you can also go to the FBI’s own website and it states the case of the Duquesne Spy Ring. On January 2, 1942, 33 members of a Nazi spy ring headed by Frederick Duquesne in New York were sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison.

Here are SOME of the names of the spies and also the espionage activities they were convicted for:

-Paul Bante, German American, was preparing a fuse bomb for sabotage.
-Franz Stigler, German American, sought to recruit amateur radio operators in the U.S. as channels of communication to German radio stations.
-Felix Jahnke, German American, had a radio set built so he could use it to transmit radio messages to Germany.
-Hartwig Kleiss, German American, obtained details on the construction and performance of new speedboats being developed by the United States Navy.
-Carl Reuper, German American, obtained photographs for Germany relating to U.S. national defense materials and construction that he obtained from his employment.