Roughly 10% of the internees were of European extraction. This story is rarely told, maybe because it is inconvenient to the "Amerika = Racist" crowd.Turdacious wrote: Americans of Italian and German ancestry were also targeted by these restrictions, including internment. 11,000 people of German ancestry were interned, as were 3,000 people of Italian ancestry, along with some Jewish refugees.
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