[muawiyah]

Where were all those Germans rounded up? Are you perhaps thinking of the Jewish Germans who were rounded up in Deutschland itself? Hmm ~

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*Where were all those Germans rounded up? Are you perhaps thinking of the Jewish Germans who were rounded up in Deutschland itself? Hmm ~*

link to list of German internment camps in the USA:
http://www.foitimes.com/internment/small.html

home page link, with many links (many photos) to navigate:
http://www.foitimes.com/internment/

another link German American Internee Coalition: http://www.gaic.info/

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I should add, throughout the war with Japan, the West Coast maritime lanes were under active attacks by a fleet of up to 10 Japanese subs. One famous quote of a sub commander of the time was “I left Santa Barbara in flames”, a laughable exaggeration, as was the ‘completely destroyed’ (baseball backstop at) Ft Stephens in Oregon. California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska all were subjected to Japanese “fire balloons” purposed to burn our national forests or whatever else they landed on. Beaches were strung with razorwire. Simply put, the USA was under direct and continuing attacks by the Japanese.

The first roundups of Japanese were of already FBI-identified ‘enemies’; then the obvious sympathizers, as were the first roundups of the German nationals. As the truths of horrific torture inflicted by non-Geneva-Convention-conforming Japanese combatants upon Allied troops, the Chinese, the Filipinos, Pacific Islanders became widely known, and as the sinking of Soviet, Alaskan and Mexican ships off of the West Coast continued (at one point leading to the infamous “Battle of Los Angeles”), it then truly became a matter of “their own safety” for all Japanese in California especially to be someplace other than on “The Front”, i.e., the West Coast.

What never rises above the political whine of ‘internment!’ is the background leading to it and the astounding fact that after the war, the Western Civilization was able to accept back into their communities those they warred with and lost children to; in less than 70 years that reintegration has become seamless. IMO, When viewed in a complete historical context there was nothing in the least 'sinister' about Japanese interrment during a World War, and it is a disservice to citizens of the USA to imply otherwise or attempt to link it in some way to investigation of radical Islam in America.