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Originally posted by Spanky
What was done to the Japanese sucked and was wrong. No question. But that is a side issue.
The point is that during WWII, any German that might have Nazi sympathies was thrown into a concentration camp by the US government. In addition, Nazi sympathisers were interviewed and asked their political views during the 1930s when we were not at war. Not a complaint from the liberals.
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Most of the Germans not identified as Nazi sympathizers faced only very mild persecution. My grandmother, whose parents had immigrated through Galveston and joined one of the tightly-knit German communities in Texas, was a schoolteacher in a German-speaking school. Well, it was German-speaking until the war started and they made her teach in English becase it was otherwise subversive.
Oh, and this was the grandmother who attended the teacher's college in San Marcos with LBJ and would regale us with the stories of him getting caught breaking into faculty offices to steal exams.
