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>the government didn't put German-Americans in concentration camps so racism seems to have played a part too. This is factually incorrect: https://en.m.wikiped

by YATA0 5y ago

>the government didn't put German-Americans in concentration camps so racism seems to have played a part too. This is factually incorrect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_America...

lazyant 5y ago
Your own quoted article says "1.2 million persons had been born in Germany, 5 million had two native-German parents, and 6 million had one native-German parent." "Many more had distant German ancestry. During WWII, the United States detained at least 11,000 ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly German nationals.[3] The government examined the cases of German nationals individually, and detained relatively few in internment camps". So millions with German ancestry, detained some who were German nationals and only a few in internment camps.
- YATA0 5y ago
  I can hear the goalposts screeching from all the way over here. >detained some who were German nationals and only a few in internment camps. Not just detained some, Germans accounted for "36.1% of the total internments under the US Justice Department's Enemy Alien Control Program." Nonetheless, you specifically stated: "the government didn't put German-Americans in concentration camps" which is absolutely, 100% a factually incorrect statement. Take the L with grace after being proven wrong.
  - lazyant 5y ago
    I can't edit my post for correctness but my point stands, you are mentioning _German_ nationals detained and we (or at least I) were talking about American citizens (Japanese- and German-Americans), who's moving the posts.
    - YATA0 5y ago
      >but my point stands No it doesn't. Your point is ahistorical and factually incorrect. >you are mentioning _German_ nationals detained No I'm not. The first fucking sentence of the Wikipedia article reads "Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens"... German-American CITIZENS. Again, take the L and stop replyguying. You moved the goal posts and are hilariously still wrong. You're fractally wrong. Stop it.

by YATA0 5y ago

lazyant 5y ago

Your own quoted article says "1.2 million persons had been born in Germany, 5 million had two native-German parents, and 6 million had one native-German parent." "Many more had distant German ancestry. During WWII, the United States detained at least 11,000 ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly German nationals.[3] The government examined the cases of German nationals individually, and detained relatively few in internment camps". So millions with German ancestry, detained some who were German nationals and only a few in internment camps.

YATA0 5y ago
I can hear the goalposts screeching from all the way over here. >detained some who were German nationals and only a few in internment camps. Not just detained some, Germans accounted for "36.1% of the total internments under the US Justice Department's Enemy Alien Control Program." Nonetheless, you specifically stated: "the government didn't put German-Americans in concentration camps" which is absolutely, 100% a factually incorrect statement. Take the L with grace after being proven wrong.
- lazyant 5y ago
  I can't edit my post for correctness but my point stands, you are mentioning _German_ nationals detained and we (or at least I) were talking about American citizens (Japanese- and German-Americans), who's moving the posts.
  - YATA0 5y ago
    >but my point stands No it doesn't. Your point is ahistorical and factually incorrect. >you are mentioning _German_ nationals detained No I'm not. The first fucking sentence of the Wikipedia article reads "Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens"... German-American CITIZENS. Again, take the L and stop replyguying. You moved the goal posts and are hilariously still wrong. You're fractally wrong. Stop it.