Hi Darice, I saw a show on this in the past year. As I recall there was also "relocation" of some Italians, too (see Mussolini threat).
My father was stationed at Ford Ord in Monterey during WWII. He used to tell me about some German prisoners of war that were processed through there one time. I thought it was amazing - how did they end up on the West Coast? He and another soldier had to drive the prisoners over to Salinas to the detention facility one afternoon. It was very hot out and he stopped the truck at a roadside place to get some Cokes. He bought all the prisoners a Coke, too, and he said they were stunned that he would do that for them and also let them out to walk around. He chatted with them and in the conversation somehow happened to mention that he and my mother did not have a refrigerator. A month later he got a message that these prisoners had found odds and ends at their camp and had actually engineered and constructed a little refrigerator for him! He said it was a piece of art and worked beautifully. A little story of how humanity can bridge a war. Kakki > There was a question about why German Americans were not subjected to the same > interment as Japanese Americans during WWII. > I have heard a very little about German interment camps over the years, so I > did a Google search. > Search was--+german +"interment camps" +america > and I got a lot of information. > It seems as if 31,280 Germans (over 120,000 Japanese) were "relocated" during > the war. > The San Jose Mercury News article looked like a good overview. > Darice
