A total of 11,507 people of German ancestry were interned during the war, comprising 36.1% of the total internments under the US Justice Department's Enemy Alien Control Program.[29] By contrast, an estimated 110,000–120,000 Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated from the West Coast and incarcerated in internment camps run by the US War Department's War Relocation Authority.[29]
Looks like the Germans and Italians were not subjected to nearly the same proportions of internment. 11k out of 1.2 million German-born Americans is a far cry from almost all of the 120k Japanese-American population.
I get that during times of war there's some necessity to investigate and detain people in your country which came from an enemy nation, but there's a difference between imprisoning 1% of the population and almost 100%.
The Americans thought it'd be prudent to investigate some Germans and detain them, but at the same time force all Japanese Americans into concentration camps.
Also, just take a look at American WW2 propaganda - how did they depict the Germans, how did they depict the Japanese? The amount of anti-asian racism is completely off the charts in the latter case, whereas the faces of the nazis in these portrayals just look like those of average homely white dudes (i'm saying this as a German myself, they just look like normal blokes i see here on the streets). They're not flattering, it's propaganda, after all, but there's none of the gross exaggeration of facial features, none of the racist stereotyping you see in the caricatures of buck-toothed, fanged, constantly grinning Hirohito that are so common in that era.
This got me thinking. Did Americans attack Soviet immigrants on the streets during the cold war? Is it just because it's hard to spot a Russian?
There was a reason that Japanese Americans got put into camps during WWII while German and Italian Americans didn't.
I wonder what that reason could be :thinkin-lenin:
I think both Germans and Italians actually were put in detention during WWII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_Americans
I have no idea how either of those compare to Japanese internments. I actually didn't know about either of those two phenomenons until just now
Looks like the Germans and Italians were not subjected to nearly the same proportions of internment. 11k out of 1.2 million German-born Americans is a far cry from almost all of the 120k Japanese-American population.
I get that during times of war there's some necessity to investigate and detain people in your country which came from an enemy nation, but there's a difference between imprisoning 1% of the population and almost 100%.
The Americans thought it'd be prudent to investigate some Germans and detain them, but at the same time force all Japanese Americans into concentration camps.
I wonder why :thinkin-lenin:
deleted by creator
"Mate, gotta intern someone."
Also, just take a look at American WW2 propaganda - how did they depict the Germans, how did they depict the Japanese? The amount of anti-asian racism is completely off the charts in the latter case, whereas the faces of the nazis in these portrayals just look like those of average homely white dudes (i'm saying this as a German myself, they just look like normal blokes i see here on the streets). They're not flattering, it's propaganda, after all, but there's none of the gross exaggeration of facial features, none of the racist stereotyping you see in the caricatures of buck-toothed, fanged, constantly grinning Hirohito that are so common in that era.
deleted by creator