ADS-L Digest - 3 Sep 2014 to 4 Sep 2014 (#2014-75)
Amy West
medievalist at W-STS.COM
Fri Sep 5 12:07:06 UTC 2014
On 9/5/14, 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:58:53 +0800
> From: W Brewer<brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: America's War on Language
>
> It is a tribute to the melting pot that the largest ethnic minority in the
> Homeland, German Americans, didn't need to be interned during two world
> wars, and even marched off in droves against their Vaterland. With the
> ethnicity boom, the pot got shoved to the back burner.
There you are wrong. German-Americans were in fact interned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
---Amy West
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