THE FACT THEY WEREN'T BLANKET ROUND-UPS...:

Study to focus on U.S. internment of Germans: Probe will look into World War II camps set up for 'enemy aliens' (FREDERIC J. FROMMER, 6/09/07, Associated Press)

In 1943, 17-year-old Eberhard Fuhr was taken out of his high school classroom in Cincinnati, arrested by FBI agents and sent off to an internment camp for "enemy aliens" in Texas, where he spent the next 4 1/2 years with his family.

Thousands of Germans experienced a similar fate. They were detained in far fewer numbers in this country than Japanese.

The stories of the Germans have gotten little attention so far, but the Senate took a step toward changing that last week, voting to look into the treatment of Germans and other Europeans in the U.S. during World War II. [...]

According to retired history professor Stephen Fox, who has written a book about the FBI roundup of German-Americans during World War II, roughly 3,000 Italians and 11,000 Germans were detained in the U.S., including some German Jews.

...seems pretty enlightened for FDR.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 10, 2007 12:00 AM