--- "Darice([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
That was me - I wasn't aware there were internment camps of German-Americans (or Canadians) although I've read quite a bit about the Japanese ones. I know there were POW camps for German soldiers. My stepmother is from England and she remembers passing by a POW camp and the soldiers would be working away at something, calling out to the girls as they went by and whistling and so on. She was just in her teens at the time, so it scared her (my god - it's the enemy!), but later, she realized they were just kids too. There is a town in Ontario called Kitchener. It used to be called Berlin (it was originally settled by Germans - Mennonites to begin with - and to this day, there are still many people of German descent - and still quite a few Old Order Mennonites -mmm, yummy cooking!) but when WWI came along, anti-German sentiment was so strong that they changed the name. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
