How did the American government treat the German population during World War II?

This question is very interesting. As we all know, the United States is a country composed of immigrants from all over the world. It turned out to be an indigenous Indian. Later, the British, Germans and Irish all immigrated to the United States. Before the outbreak of World War II, Germans in the United States have become the largest race in the United States, and their total population will account for 18% of the total population in the United States, which means that one in every five Americans is German.

America is a country made up of immigrants.

You know, Germany and the United States were enemies during World War II. When war breaks out, it is also the time when ethnic contradictions are most likely to erupt into civil strife. So how does the American government treat its huge German population?

In fact, as early as World War I, the American government had already dealt with the Germans. Since then, most of the German population in the United States has drawn a clear line with Germany and German culture, and they have become native Americans. So in World War II, many German-Americans joined the army and fought against Germany. Even American five-star generals Eisenhower and Nimitz are German-Americans. So in World War II, except for a few German-Americans brainwashed by German Nazi culture, most German-Americans were no different from ordinary Americans.

▲ Later American President Eisenhower was also a German-American.

Germans had been thoroughly integrated into American culture before World War II, so Germans in World War II were already Native Americans.

Because German-Americans during World War I were called by Americans? Enemy nationals? In order to prevent them from defecting to the enemy and causing damage at home, the US government has taken a series of relevant measures.

▲ What is the name of the cartoon in The New York Herald? From where? Enemy nationals? The threat hovering over new york?

During the war, the U.S. government gave 500,000 German-Americans stickers? Enemy nationals? Many of them were under close surveillance, and about 6,000 men and some women were sent to detention camps.

Besides government monitoring, there are many so-called? Patriotic citizen? Spying on German-Americans, they are particularly keen to expose suspicious neighbors and colleagues.

▲ During World War I, even Germans were forbidden to enter the park.

In addition, the U.S. government has also set up a foreign nationals' property management bureau, which, as the name implies, is a department specializing in sealing up and confiscating the property of so-called imperial nationals. They hired hundreds of officials and attacked from all directions. During World War I, they seized nearly 500 million dollars of private property that might be related to the war.

Poor German-Americans, on the one hand, expressed disappointment and anger at German atrocities and a series of deception, on the other hand, they were monitored by the authorities and hostile to society in the United States, and even many people were imprisoned and their property was confiscated. So in order not to be isolated and hostile, German-Americans decided to draw a clear line with the Germans, abandon German, abandon German culture, and completely integrate into the United States. Not only become a thorough American in identity, but also be thoroughly Americanized in ideology and culture.

After more than 20 years of sterilization, German-Americans have completely regarded themselves as Americans. Therefore, when World War II broke out, the American government no longer had to consider the German problem in China, because German-Americans had picked up their guns, boarded the plane and started a bloody war against Germany.

▲ German-Americans attacked Germany on the Western Front.

Dramatically, because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, Japanese-Americans lived the life of German-Americans in World War I, and they became new? Enemy nationals? The American government once again used German-made tactics against Japanese-Americans until the end of World War II.