Flashback: How Japanese Americans Were Forced Into Concentration Camps During WWII The Berizzis were just a few of at least 600,000 Italians and Italian Americans—many of them naturalized citizens—swept up in a wave of racism and persecution during World War II. Hundreds of Italian “enemy ...
“In WWII, we put Japanese Americans into concentration camps but German Americans remained free. Gee, I wonder why?” Japan attacked Hawaii, where there was a large Japanese population that people suspected were spying on behalf of Japan. Japanese were concentrated near the Pacific coast, where...
Unlike Britain, we were still richer than most other developed countries, so this convergence was viewed as partly inevitable (the catch-up from WWII), and partly reflecting the superior economic model of the Germans and Japanese. Now let’s look at what actually happened over the next 28 yea...