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by Tondoteottotote on August 30th, 2006

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If Japanese-Americans got sent to internment camps for being the same race/descent/etc. of the enemy, why weren't German-Americans and Italian-Americans sent to these camps?

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  • by roadpup2 on April 29th, 2007

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    Both German-Americans and Italian-Americans were interred, but in smaller numbers than Japaese-Americans. The G/A's and I/A's were selectively interred based on their estimated danger to American security rather than on a wholesale racial basis, as were the Japanese-Americans.

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    • what about the sheer numbers?
      how many G/A's, I/A's and J/A's were there?
      were there perhaps more J/A's than could be investigated individually?

      purplecows

      by purplecows on September 28th, 2009

    • I don't know numbers, but I'm pretty sure we could look it up somewhere. I think more Japanese-Americans were locked up than others.

      roadpup2

      by roadpup2 on September 29th, 2009

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