Reply #20: Thanks for the info [View All]

I know about the internment of German-Americans during WWI--in fact, several German-Americans were lynched by mobs during the period.

It should also be noted that the site you link includes the following rebuttal:

An Opposing View


Review Essay: Were German-Americans Interned during World War Two? A Question concerning Scholarly Standards and Integrity. AATG's The German Quarterly, Winter 1998, pp. 73-77. Jeffrey Sammons (Yale U.) reviews two works on the topic with special focus on the Holian work noted below.

Despite all the assertions, including the blatantly tendentious subtitle of the Tolzmann volumes, no evidence has as yet been brought forward that, except for the minor children of enemy aliens, any German-Americans were interned during World War ll. To claim otherwise is irresponsible.


This is quite compelling criticism of these claims from a respected scholar.

I would certainly need more evidence than Jacobs' unfootnoted assertion that "11,000" German-Americans were interned.