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by niihau_island 1963 days ago
> Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War.

And just 20 years before that the Japanese internment camps happened.

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Sharp contrast between concentration camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans with the treatment of Germans and Nazi sympathizers
Some German Americans were actually interned[1]. About 1/10th the amount of Japanese that were interned, but also not nothing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

That was because the Allies expected the Germans to obey "rules of war" in the European tradition, and knew that the Japanese wouldn't. An American GI would be much happier as a POW of Germany than of Japan.