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>By Gary North >LewRockwell.com >12-12-1 > >On this, the 60th anniversary of Adolph Hitler's declaration of war >against the United States, which he was not bound by Germany's >strictly defensive military treaty with Japan to declare, I bring >you "the story behind the story" of how the Roosevelt Administration >was able to persuade the Nazis to send back some of those Americans >who were caught behind German lines on this day, six decades ago. >This story is not in the textbooks, nor is it likely to be anytime >soon. __ > >Most Americans have never heard of the prisoner of war camps in the >United States during World War II. Hans Sennholz, a Luftwaffe pilot >and later a Misesian economist, worked on a prisoner-run farm in >Arkansas after he had been shot down by British anti-aircraft fire >in North Africa. They sent him from Britain through Canada to the >West Coast and then to Arkansas. > >Most estimates that I have seen place the number of prisoners of war >in the U.S. in the range of 50,000 to 70,000, but one reputable and >detailed Website says it was 425,000. > >More than 150,000 men arrived after the surrender of Gen. Erwin >Rommel's Afrika Korps in April 1943, followed by an average of >20,000 new POWs a month. From the Normandy invasion in June 1944 >through December 30,000 prisoners a month arrived; for the last few >months of the war 60,000 were arriving each month. When the war was >over, there were 425,000 enemy prisoners in 511 main and branch >camps throughout the United States. > >This is a good example of history that never gets to the general >public. This is a little-known and long-forgotten story, but it is >not shocking. > >What follows is shocking. I begin with low-level shock. > >The Japanese Camps > >Most Americans know about the concentration camp system that the >United States created for Japanese residents of the West Coast. >There were 120,000 of these internees in a dozen camps, mostly in >the mountain states, but with two camps in eastern Arkansas. A few >Americans know that the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover had opposed these mass >arrests. Fewer still know of the forced sale of everything these >people owned at substantial discounts. They were only allowed to >bring into the camps what they could carry in their arms in one >trip. But until this year, only a handful of Japanese-Americans knew >that in 1944, the U.S. government drafted the young men housed in >these camps, and about 300 refused to be inducted. They said they >were prisoners who were not being treated as citizens, which they >were. So, some of them were put in jail for draft resistance, and >the others became pariahs in the camps. The other Japanese internees >regarded them as traitors. This story became public knowledge only >this year, in law professor Eric Muller's book, Free to Die for >Their Country (University of Chicago Press, 2001). You can get >chapter one on the Web. > >The Western Hemisphere Kidnap Camps > >The following story would be a great case study for Memory Hole 101 >(second semester). I stumbled onto it about three years ago. It was >on the Website of a local affiliate of NBC television. That Web page >is long gone, but because of www.google.com, I was able to track >down other pages in a few minutes. I used these search terms: >Japanese, Germans, Peru, World War II, Texas, camps. Of course, had >I not found that NBC affiliate site three years ago, I never would >have known which search terms to use. I never would have known about >this story. Prepare yourself for a shock. This is from the Handbook >of Texas Website. Its title is "World War II Internment Camps." And >what remarkable camps they were! You will find no reference to these >camps in any textbook on U.S. history, I guarantee you. > > >Although many Americans are aware of the World War II imprisonment >of West Coast Japanese Americans in relocation centers, few know of >the smaller internment camps operated by the Immigration and >Naturalization Service. Under the authority of the Department of >Justice, the INS directed about twenty such facilities. Texas had >three of them, located at Seagoville, Kenedy, and Crystal City. >Prisoners included Japanese Americans arrested by the FBI, members >of Axis nationalities residing in Latin-American countries, and Axis >sailors arrested in American ports after the attack on Pearl Harbor. >About 3,000 Japanese, Germans, and Italians from Latin America were >deported to the United States, and most of them were placed in the >Texas internment camps. Twelve Latin-American countries gave the >United States Department of State custody of the Axis nationals. > >Eighty percent of the prisoners were from Peru, and about 70 percent >were Japanese. The official reasons for the deportations were to >secure the Western Hemisphere from internal sabotage and to provide >bartering pawns for exchange of American citizens captured by Japan. >However, the Axis nationals were often deported arbitrarily as a >result of racial prejudice and because they provided economic >competition for the other Latin Americans, not because they were a >security threat. Eventually, very few Japanese ever saw Latin >America again, although some Germans and Italians were returned to >their Latin American homes. The majority of Texas internment-camp >prisoners were Axis nationals from Latin America. . . . > >In addition, prisoners were taken to Crystal City from other INS >internment camps in Hawaii and Alaska (not states at the time), the >United States, Puerto Rico, the West Indies, and South and Central >American countries. . . . > >As we shall see, there is some debate about the numbers of these >victims of American-supervised international kidnapping. Was it >3,000, total? Or were there more? I think there were far more, for >reasons that you will soon see. In any case, what you have read so >far is a whitewashed version of the story. It gets worse � much, >much worse. > >Add one word to the Google search list: "exchanged." Again, had I >not found that NBC affiliate site, I would not have known to use >this term. This brought me to a site run by the Freedom of >Information Times. This revealing site specializes in World War II >internment of German American civilians. > >Here, we read the grim reality regarding what other use these >kidnapped Latin Americans had for the American government. I will >bet that nothing that you have ever read mentioned this legacy of >Roosevelt's New Deal. > > >Facts: During the hearings before the U.S. Commission on Wartime >Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Edward J. Ennis, the >Director of the Alien Enemy Control during World War II, on November >3, 1981 testified: > > >Mr. Macbeth [a member of the Commission]: Did you have any >experience with the internment of enemy aliens who were outside of >the United States. > >Mr. Ennis: Oh yes, we had two programs...Now the other program was >taking alien enemies from other countries in South America...If we >couldn't get the [Latin American] countries to intern them we had to >transmit them to the United States for internment...It was an >aborted program, I don't think it accomplished anything. It had a >security purpose to do in these countries [Latin America] what we >were doing in the United States, about 5,000 German aliens were >interned, and a few hundred German aliens in Cuba and in other >countries in South America. But it didn't work very well. [Source: >pp.157-159, Testimony of Edward J. Ennis before the Commission on >Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians on November 3, 1981, >R.G. 220. . . . > >The Latin Americans of German ancestry who [about 5,000] were >brought to this country by the United States were incarcerated in >several camps, most were in either of the following camps: Crystal >City, Texas; Seagoville, Texas; Camp Kenedy, Texas; Fort Lincoln, >Bismarck, North Dakota; and Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York. > >Hundreds of the interned Latin Americans, many of whom were, by >birthright, citizens of one of the republics, were exchanged for >persons of the Americas held by the Third Reich, i.e., they were >deported to Germany. > >Stephen Fox, "The Deportation of Latin American Germans, 1941-47: >Fresh Legs for Mr. Monroe's Doctrine," Yearbook of German-American >Studies 32 (1997): 117-42. > >Prior to the exchange, lists of internees in the U.S., including the >names of German-Jews, were provided to the authorities of the Third >Reich. > >The State Department citations herein are included in their entirety >in Volume IV, The World War Two Experience of German-Americans of >German-Americans in the World Wars, Edited by: Don Heinrich >Tolzmann, K.G. Saur, Munich, 1995, pp. 1671-1674. > >Got that, folks? The U.S. government went to the trouble of >identifying the kidnapped victims of Jewish German background, sent >their names to Hitler's bureaucrats, knowing that these were "high >priority items," and then shipped them off to Germany in exchange >for Americans who had been inside the Third Reich when Hitler >declared War on December 11. > >The only other explanation is that American bureaucrats deliberately >identified the captive Jews in order that the Germans might be able >to keep out those Germans whom they really didn't want. That's the >"favorable interpretation." > >"My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty," etc., etc. > >Franklin Roosevelt's Administration did many horrible things. This >is just one more example. Most of these things were covered up then, >and professional historians still do their best to cover them up >today, 56 years after FDR's death. > >For the New Deal-justifying liberals who write all of the American >history textbooks, seeing just isn't believing. Facts like these are >dropped down the memory hole, where they are thought to belong. > >Why don't Jews know about this neglected aspect of American history? >Because they haven't been told. Why not? Because most academic Jews >are political liberals, and their commitment to the Roosevelt >Administration has been greater than their commitment to historical >accuracy. So, politically conservative Jews don't know the story. > >Conclusion > >Anyone who points out this sort of thing is dismissed by the >Establishment press and the Establishment academic community (guild) >as a "conspiracy nut." I confess: guilty as charged. > >December 11 , 2001 > > > > > > >MainPage >http://www.rense.com ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
