David T. Darnell wrote:
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OTOH, Granny had a number of neighbors that were first generation German-Americans. The German lady next door (next farm)  was known, prior to our involvement in the European theatre, to sing the praises of Hitler, his movement, and how great it all was for Germany. According to Grandma, no German-Americans were ever sequestered or arrested unless there was hard intelligence indicating personal involvement in espionage. In fact, she says, the German lady in question was never mistreated in the community, and US Citizens of German ancestry were not viewed with a very jaundiced eye.
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Au contraire! My mother's family is 100% German. In Kansas & Missouri they were forced to rely only on each other because of mistreatment by those who were not German Americans. They had difficulty buying and selling in the area where they lived. Granted, they were not interred, but they were mistreated, none the less. The real irony is my great-grandfather was Jewish and was treated just as if he just a run of the mill German Americans in their community...with disrespect and contempt! They came to America in the early 1900s before WW I and certainly before Hitler was even in power. They were treated as if they were Nazis by their non-German neighbors.



Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
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