Comment by piskov
3 days ago
> it was in 1943, just after citizens of Japanese descent had been forced off their property and taken away to concentration camps
Anyone else did that during the war or only horrible Hitler and humane Americans?
Come think of it, I wonder what would happen to all the immigrants if full-on war ensues.
I think the motivation and experience of those camps were quite different
Yeah, let’s call that involuntary race-based detention a retreat.
People are cruel. Good people arent cruel enough to overpower the cruel people
Like the USofA, the British interned "enemy nationals" - this policy extended across the Commonwealth including Canada, Australia, India, and elsewhere.
~ https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-c...
In Australia: https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-ci...
In India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet
Technically Heinrich Harrer was not a civilian as he held the "honorary" rank of a Nazi sergeant in the SS, kind of an early PR stunt rank given due to his status as a world famous mountaineer .. still it points to the internment of Germans and Austrians in India and references an interesting book
Also, noting Peru, this happened on every inhabited continent. The USA figure of 120,000 interned isn’t even high on the list. Stalin interned 180,000 Koreans just in case.