[openasocket]

The most absurd thing I read on here was that they were still subjected to the draft. So that Japanese couldn't be trusted to live in the United States without armed guards, but we can totally give them guns and send them off to fight the enemy?!

[akhilcacharya]

They were disallowed from fighting in the Pacific theatre, so they all fought in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(Unite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye#Medal_of_Honor_c...

[MaxfordAndSons]

Interesting to note, this went both ways: my grandfather was a naturalized German immigrant, and was sent to the Pacific when drafted because he was disallowed from fighting in Europe.

But of course, for some reason, German Americans weren't interned...

[leurfete]

Germans and Italians were also interned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_American...

[MaxfordAndSons]

Yea, learned this today. Seems to be that it was of a significantly smaller percentage than of Japanese Americans though.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

The article summary seems to imply this was to a lesser extent?

[coldcode]

Germans are considered "white" I imagine and thus hard to distinguish.

[wehadfun]

We know why this did not happen

[avar]

No more absurd than criminals being given the choice to enlist or prison, which was the practice until Vietnam.