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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
Oh granted, but there's lots more to the last century than WWII. And I don't consider WWII a US war anyway - in its origins, at least.
But the US speaking German rather than English would have meant a big difference in the attitudes of other countries to the US throughout the century, regardless of ideologies. It would have changed the ongoing US/Britain perception of kinship, for one; just in recent years, for instance, what would that have done to the "Coalition of the Willing"?
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I know that German-Americans did fight in Europe during WW 2. Worked as interpreters and interrogators as well.
After reading a few hundred books on WW2, I noticed that large numbers of German-Americans and Italian-Americans were not arrested as possible subversives, but that many Japanese-Americans were treated so.
There were a number of recent, 1920-1941, European immigrants who were arrested in WW2. But the only large group shipped off to camps were the Japanese-Americans.
I think the Japanese-Americans were treated wrongfully.
I was born a few years after WW2. I talked to relatives, and elderly neighbors, as I grew up about WW2.
Alot of the 'we gotta watch them' against the Japnese-Americans amounted to racism and hate-mongering, not what the Japanese-Americans were actually going to do.
At least thinking Americans allowed the Japanese-Americans to sign up and fight in Europe.