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Originally Posted by Guest
Anyone want to proffer a guess, as to why there were only about 11,000 German's in the US put into internment camps in WW11...versus the 110,000+ Japanese that were interned (over 60% AMERICAN CITIZENS)?
It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the Japanese 'looked different' than the white Germans...could it?
Given the current hysterical prejudice against 'brown-skinned people'...I guess things will never change for bigots and racists.  |
The Germans got here several generations before WWI and II, and did so in large numbers. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States — more than doubling the entire population of the country.
In contrast, the Japanese were recent arrivals, emigrating after 1880 and in smaller numbers. Between 1886 and 1911, 400,000 men and women left Japan for the U.S.
Lastly, no matter what you saw in that famous historical documentary "Animal House", the Germans did not bomb Pearl Harbor.