From: "Thomas Schoene"
Date: 6/20/2004 4:36 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: .net

B2431 wrote:

Germans and Italian residents were also detained. Ellis Island even
became a detention camp.

German-American and Italian-American citizens of the United States were not
interned en masse; Japanese-American citizens were. Not just alien
residents, mind you, but American citizens, some going back several
generations, were locked up in camps without the slightest hint of due
process. They were even forbidden to move out of the prohibited areas
voluntarily; only internment was acceptable.

--
Tom Schoene

I never said otherwise. Most Americans are totally unaware that entire German
and Italian families were also interned. Most European internees were just as
innocent as the Japanese. Bear in mind who was making the arrests: the FBI
under J. Edgar "like my dress?" Hoover.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired