Hmmmm,

Well, Granny has been known to sometimes let her mind follow alternate reality threads, rather than the same her body followed (that means, like all of us, her memory can be distorted.)

I would suspect that in California at the time, locals were a lot more paranoid about the Japanese than in the midwest, probably taking the heat off the Germans. Also A LOT of people in the area were of mixed-german blood, Granny included (also Czech.)

Of course, it Goes Without Saying that I did not intend to lessen the validity of any ethnic groups' right to decry and bemoan their ancestors' treatment. Mistreating Japanese and Germans during that era was just as ignorant, redneck, and assinine then as blowing up mosques and burning Arab-American businesses is today, or Jews in any era, etc. etc.

Dave "have been mistreated because I was white, or redneck, or American, etc." Darnell

PS, Hello to Nona, Jerry, et.al, with whom I worked at NAS and NAChem around 1997





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Subject:        [HP3000-L] OT: United 564

David T. Darnell wrote:
....<snip>
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.
....<snip>

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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