The question is often asked why Germans and Italians were not interned and why the Japanese in Hawaii were left alone. The answer is simple. Germans and Italians were persecuted during World War I. when they were fairly recent immigrants. but there were too many of them to intern. However. "patriots" dumped garbage on the lawns of German homes. and in some east coast cities. all the German books in the public libraries were burned and courses in the German language offered in colleges and high school stopped. By the time of World War II. both Germans and Italians were a wellestablished and familiar part of American life.
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