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> it was in 1943, just after citizens of Japanese descent had been forced off their property and taken away to concentration camps Anyone else did that during
by piskov 8mo ago
> it was in 1943, just after citizens of Japanese descent had been forced off their property and taken away to concentration camps
Anyone else did that during the war or only horrible Hitler and humane Americans?
Come think of it, I wonder what would happen to all the immigrants if full-on war ensues.
- whattheheckheck 8mo agoPeople are cruel. Good people arent cruel enough to overpower the cruel people
- defrost 8mo agoLike the USofA, the British interned "enemy nationals" - this policy extended across the Commonwealth including Canada, Australia, India, and elsewhere. During the Second World War, the British government interned several different groups of people, including German, Austrian and Italian nationals. However, following Nazi Germany’s military successes in France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the spring and summer of 1940, there was increasing concern that ‘enemy aliens’ in Britain would form a ‘ fifth column ’. These concerns were amplified by the British press. As a result of this growing fear, the British government interned approximately 27,000 ‘enemy aliens’, including those assessed as low risk, supposedly in the interests of national security. Those interned were predominantly men between the ages of 16 and 60, but 4000 women and children were also interned. ~ https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-collaboration/responses/british-policy-of-internment/ https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-c... In Australia: https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-citizenship/wartime-internment-camps-australia https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-ci... In India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet Technically Heinrich Harrer was not a civilian as he held the "honorary" rank of a Nazi sergeant in the SS, kind of an early PR stunt rank given due to his status as a world famous mountaineer .. still it points to the internment of Germans and Austrians in India and references an interesting book
- sigwinch 8mo agoAlso, noting Peru, this happened on every inhabited continent. The USA figure of 120,000 interned isn’t even high on the list. Stalin interned 180,000 Koreans just in case.
- xyzelement 8mo agoI think the motivation and experience of those camps were quite different
- piskov 8mo agoYeah, let’s call that involuntary race-based detention a retreat.