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by MaxfordAndSons 3485 days ago
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...

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Yea, learned this today. Seems to be that it was of a significantly smaller percentage than of Japanese Americans though.
The article summary seems to imply this was to a lesser extent?
Germans are considered "white" I imagine and thus hard to distinguish.
We know why this did not happen