It's also interesting to show this as contrast when people claim the internment of Japanese was uniquely racist.
Cincinnati was, and is, a huge German city. They changed many street names and neighborhood names during WWI. My family members were harassed because of our German Surname.
None of the Volga-German members of my family tree got sent to camps after they came to the USA circa 1915.
Seems they fared MUCH better than those who stayed behind and were sent to Siberia and Kazakhstan during the Bolchevik exercises in ethnic cleansing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Volga-Germans+gulags+bolshevik
How do you explain that?
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Baloney. That's a load of divisive Bolshe-shyte commie propaganda from the UK Mail.
Does the leftist UK Mail have any opinions to offer up on the TRAGIC mass genocide inflicted on Ukraine under the purview of their comrades?
Not all Japanese Americans were housed in those nice billets (which I have slept in since). Only the national security risks were housed in them, and the facilities around them were nice. Communications between Japanese government/military officials and Japanese Americans who associated with them were monitored (relatives and the like). That was the purpose of the temporary internment.
German PWs were so terribly treated by their day work release bosses in western states, that many of those German prisoners later owned American ranches. During World War 1, Americans even had a national gardening program aimed specifically at helping the government to feed starving Europeans. Quite a contrast to the way Europeans treated each other.
"The group can trace its origins back to launch of the mid market national newspaper the Daily Mail by Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, and his elder brother, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, in 1896.[4] It was incorporated in 1922 and its shares were first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1932. Harmsworth, who had been elevated to the peerage as Lord Rothermere, was editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley[4] and the British Union of Fascists and he wrote an article, "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934.[5] Referring to Adolf Hitler's proposed invasion of Czechoslovakia, Rothermere, again writing in the Daily Mail, said in 1938 that "Czechs were of no concern to Englishmen".[6]"
That UK Mail?
Might want to check their own glaz hoyz before they start throwing "tragic" stones across the pond.
History of antisemitism
Nineteenth century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism#Nineteenth_century
Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism#Germany
More anti-American crap from the BBC.
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There were TWO World War I’s? When did the second World War I begin?
Nice to have this POV. Germans are usually fair game no matter what the topic.
My mother’s family “suffered” in Baltimore for their German background. Ours were (still sort of are, until last year) a prominent pork-processing/packing company in town and everyone knew them. But Germans were persona-non-grata for WWI and the business suffered.
Later, as mom said, there was no problem during WWII. When Germans were much more of a threat as fascists. I think people just heaved a big yawn when it came up so shortly later, along with perhaps a bit of regret knowing that WWI really didn’t mean anything, and was an asinine war over nothing.
But my more-German (came here as a baby) father’s father actually went to Europe to fight.
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...or any of the other rainbow minions in Lord Rothermere/Harmsworth/Rothschild/Whatever's Daily "journalistic" empire, written anything about this...
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...tragic plight?
Very interesting post.
I was recently at a fort in New Mexico where they interned German POWs during WWII. One of the comments was that it was pretty nice and they had been concerned because internment in the USA during WWI could be fine or very harsh, depending on the camp.
This seems to bear that out.
It didn’t even have walls. (It did have about 100 miles of near impassible desert around it.)
My Great Grandfather, last name Kastenhuber, did not change his name, and anyone who suggested it would probably not have liked the result. He was a Captain in the AEF and fought in a number of engagements in France, including a assault across a pontoon bridge defended by machine guns at the second battle of the Marne.
My Grandmother lived in a small town in Ohio and had a strongly German surname (Hoopingarner). They were Lutherans. Her family had lived there in Ohio for four generations. Her maternal aunts were members of the DAR (as I am SAR). She was about one eighth German according to family records. The rest of her ancestors were Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, and Swiss with deep American roots. The German ancestors arrived in this country in 1752 from the village of Oberboihingen via Rotterdam and Southampton before they disembarked from the Phoenix in Philadelphia. They were not allowed off the ship until they had pledged loyalty to King George II. When the US declared war on Germany in 1917, she was immediately ostracized and call a “Hun.” Things got worse. People began to boycott my great grandfather’s general store. Windows were broken. Her house burned down under mysterious circumstances.
The family changed its identity to Pennsylvania Dutch which was still German, but most people did not know that. My grandmother always blamed Woodrow Wilson for making things bad for German Americans. Her family had been Grover Cleveland Democrats. In 1925 when she was old enough to vote she registered Republican. Some of the same people who had not liked her for being German were in the KKK. They burned a cross as a warning to her for registering as a Republican. She gave up and left the town moving to Marietta where she met and married my grandfather who was also a Republican. In a strange way I am indebted to Woodrow Wilson and the Klan for making me possible.
Interesting.
In WWI, there was very widespread anti-German sentiment in the Upper Midwest - especially my state of Minnesota which had many German immigrants. A sizable number of those immigrants were not in favor of war with teir home country. Other identified with the Non-Partisan League, an agrarian political reform movement that many tagged to be socialistic.
The state lgislature passed into law what was called the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. The Minnesota State Historical Society has a good short article about it. Here’s the link:
http://www.mnopedia.org/group/minnesota-commission-public-safety
This article is a gross distortion of the facts. “German Americans,” if that term is used to mean US citizens of German descent (my ancestors among them), were not subject to mass harassment and internment during WWI. German nationals and citizens of other countries of German birth were. Only 11,000 total were detained, much less interned, out of millions living here.
“German Americans” were and remain the largest “ethnic” group in the country. While animosity toward recent immigrants and very obviously German individuals happened, and the use of the German
Language and German customs were suppressed, there was too damn many Americans of German decent for any mass abuse to have taken place. The Studebaker family of the auto company were of German descent. Pershing was of German decent (his paternal ancestors came from Alsace in the German Empire) and he commanded the AEF! Eisenhower too was “German American.” and a young officer in the same force.
In that era the idea of “hyphenated Americans” of any type was considered un American. You were either American or you were something else. We should go back to that idea.
Not sure if you’re on the thread, but thought you’d find it interesting.
this happened to my grandpa and his family
they emigrated from baden in 1912, to escape the kaiser. ironically, that is my mom’s maiden name.
so, you can imagine the treatment his family received during the WW1 period of US involvement.
that said, he was a patriotic american, and never held it against anyone. he was glad to be an American.
Liberty Cabbage and Liberty Meat...
Sounds as stupid then as Liberty Fries now.
Why do we keep doing the same stupid stuff over and over. We get mixed up in wars we should not be mixed up in, we give our President dictatorial powers, and we don’t know enough to just stay in our own country and live our lives.