Part of the reason why WW2 didn’t spark the same level of anti-German backlash is because many who were beginning their political careers during WW1 were horrified at the anti-German bigotry that arose during WW1; and thus when WW2 came around, made sure to portray the WW2 German government as tyrannizing the German people, rather than synonymous with them.
Apparently, though, that wasn’t a concern for Japanese-Americans, who got to ‘enjoy’ the weight of US 1940s racism.
I sometimes feel that when we as humanity try to learn some lessons from the past we act like a jinn taking wishes too literally. Like okay, now if that’s a German citizen, in the USA, we’re going to treat them okay. We will not if that’s not the USA (like the UK did), or not German ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Far fewer, not systematically; mostly unnaturalized immigrants and those with connections to the Italian government. Many of them were released before the war’s end. But yes.
Part of the reason why WW2 didn’t spark the same level of anti-German backlash is because many who were beginning their political careers during WW1 were horrified at the anti-German bigotry that arose during WW1; and thus when WW2 came around, made sure to portray the WW2 German government as tyrannizing the German people, rather than synonymous with them.
Apparently, though, that wasn’t a concern for Japanese-Americans, who got to ‘enjoy’ the weight of US 1940s racism.
I sometimes feel that when we as humanity try to learn some lessons from the past we act like a jinn taking wishes too literally. Like okay, now if that’s a German citizen, in the USA, we’re going to treat them okay. We will not if that’s not the USA (like the UK did), or not German ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
they put Italians in internment camps as well
Far fewer, not systematically; mostly unnaturalized immigrants and those with connections to the Italian government. Many of them were released before the war’s end. But yes.