TonyBurns

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Yup, 70 years ago today the yanks entered ww2, this little clip from the beeb shows it wasnt all fun for the japanese americans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16063511

Tony

alcazar

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Like we didn't round up any "German British".

subaruturbo_18

I you miss more than Michael Bay missed the mark
When he made Pearl Harbor.

I miss you more than that movie missed the point.
And that's an awful a lot girl.
And now, now you've gone away And all I'm trying to say is
Pearl Harbor sucked... and I miss you.

I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting schools
He was terrible in that film...
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He's way better than Ben Affleck and now,
All I can think about is your smile and that ****ty movie
too...
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you...

Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked just a little bit more than I miss
you...

jonc

We still have the Royal family last time I checked!

Leslie

Did we do that? I can't find any reference to that.

My mother was Austrian and came over here as a young girl before the war as in fact happened to many young Austrians because their parents knew well enough what was going to happen to Austria.

Because of her accent she was regarded in deep suspicion by many people quite unfairly. In common with most Austrians she did not have any respect for the Germans right up until she died.

Our authorities did not take any special interest in her and she was allowed to carry out a completely normal life in this country.

We did of course have many German prisoners of war who worked on farms etc. and who got on well with British people. They were well treated by our authorities.

Les

alcazar

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AFAIK, anyone of German origin, and NOT naturalised as British, was either sent home, or rounded up and interned.
But it was kept quiet. Try and find any reference to it. (My AFAIK comes from my father, now deceased, my uncle, ditto, and a German friend of both, now also, sadly, passed on.)
Much as the FACT that the British invented the "concentration camps" during the Boer war was/is also kept very quiet.

NOT death camps, but the lesser concentration camps we then, along with the USA, deplored at the end of WWII.

CrisPDuk

It did happen Les, but like Alcazar said, you'll struggle to find reference to it. Many were shipped over to the Isle of Man, and, more shamefully, many German Jews (who had seen what was coming and fled) were forcibly repatriated by the Government of the time

CrisPDuk

Not strictly true Jeff. The British Army may have invented the term 'Concentration Camp', but the format of the camps themselves was taken from straight from the Americans, who had been using them for containing Native Americans at least 70 years previously

Leslie

Thanks for the info'. Not a very pleasant thing to read about and no wonder it is hard to find.

Les