Most Americans know that the American government forcibly uprooted and transported thousands of Japanese and Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to relocation camps for the duration of World War II. What American history has overlooked is that the same injustice was perpetuated against the German population in the United States. Defying clearly articulated constitutional principles, the American government ordered the arrest and internment of thousands of German aliens, including women and children, in federal prison camps without trials or the opportunity for appeal. Based on extensive primary research, including interviews with former prisoners and recently released government documents, prominent historian Arnold Krammer tells the shocking story of America's treatment of German aliens during World War II. Krammer illuminates the government's motives and methods, identifies the victims of the persecution, and describes the quality of life in the camps. With dozens of revealing, never-before- published photographs, this is the first book to explore this neglected topic, and Krammer's well-supported and controversial conclusions will force historians to re-examine America's war-time treatment of all ethnic groups.
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Praise for Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees: The scholarship is a tour de force! (Amos E. Simpson )
Praise for Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees: The scholarship is a tour de force! (Amos E. Simpson )
Krammer, premier historian of WW II military POWs held in the U.S., now calls attention to German civilian interness. (Choice )
Undue Process by Arnold Krammer, is a disturbing book but one that should be read by every American concerned about human rights abuses in our own country. (Barnes Review, March/April 99 )
Undue Process by Arnold Krammer, is a disturbing book but one that should be read by every American concerned about human rights abuses in our own country. (Barnes Review, March/April 99 )
...a valuable contribution insofar as it introduces readers to a topic that has received little previous attention... (Peter Kivisto American Historical Review, Augustana College )
A crisp volume...a set of remarkable surprises. Undue Process is cleanly written and thoroughly researched; it is a fine example of the historian's craft. (Robert Weldon Whalen The Journal Of Southern History )
A crisp volume...a set of remarkable surprises. Undue Process is cleanly written and thoroughly researched; it is a fine example of the historian's craft. (Robert Weldon Whalen The Journal Of Southern History )
Krammer has, once again, demonstrated admirable archival skills. His reconstruction of a forgotten incident is an interesting contribution to our understanding of the home front and domestic dilemmas during World War II. (Ron Robin The Journal Of American History )
Using extensive primary sources, including interviews with former internees, as well as only recently released government documents, Krammer illuminates the government's motives and methods, identifying the victims of the persecution, and vividly describes the quality of life in the camps where Germans were interned. This book includes dozens of revealing, and hitherto unpublished photographs of interned Germans and a list of internment camps during World War II. In conclusion, Krammer notes that, next to the Japanese Americans, the German Americans 'constituted the largest number interned. Unexplicably, their experiences have been passed over by history' (p. 174). However, his work definetely contributes to illuminating this negleected topic. (Don Heinrich Tolzmann Journal Of American Ethnic History/Fall 1999 )
[A] fascinating and little known story . . . informative, briskly written, and frequently disturbing. (Burt Erickson Nelson People's Friend )
Praise for Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees: The scholarship is a tour de force! (Amos E. Simpson )
Krammer, premier historian of WW II military POWs held in the U.S., now calls attention to German civilian interness. (Choice )
Undue Process by Arnold Krammer, is a disturbing book but one that should be read by every American concerned about human rights abuses in our own country. (Barnes Review, March/April 99 )
Undue Process by Arnold Krammer, is a disturbing book but one that should be read by every American concerned about human rights abuses in our own country. (Barnes Review, March/April 99 )
...a valuable contribution insofar as it introduces readers to a topic that has received little previous attention... (Peter Kivisto American Historical Review, Augustana College )
A crisp volume...a set of remarkable surprises. Undue Process is cleanly written and thoroughly researched; it is a fine example of the historian's craft. (Robert Weldon Whalen The Journal Of Southern History )
A crisp volume...a set of remarkable surprises. Undue Process is cleanly written and thoroughly researched; it is a fine example of the historian's craft. (Robert Weldon Whalen The Journal Of Southern History )
Krammer has, once again, demonstrated admirable archival skills. His reconstruction of a forgotten incident is an interesting contribution to our understanding of the home front and domestic dilemmas during World War II. (Ron Robin The Journal Of American History )
Using extensive primary sources, including interviews with former internees, as well as only recently released government documents, Krammer illuminates the government's motives and methods, identifying the victims of the persecution, and vividly describes the quality of life in the camps where Germans were interned. This book includes dozens of revealing, and hitherto unpublished photographs of interned Germans and a list of internment camps during World War II. In conclusion, Krammer notes that, next to the Japanese Americans, the German Americans 'constituted the largest number interned. Unexplicably, their experiences have been passed over by history' (p. 174). However, his work definetely contributes to illuminating this negleected topic. (Don Heinrich Tolzmann Journal Of American Ethnic History/Fall 1999 )
[A] fascinating and little known story . . . informative, briskly written, and frequently disturbing. (Burt Erickson Nelson People's Friend )
About the Author
Arnold Krammer is professor of history at Texas A & M University and the author of the highly acclaimed Nazi Prisoners of War in America. He lives in College Station, Texas.
Arnold Krammer is professor of history at Texas A & M University and the author of the highly acclaimed Nazi Prisoners of War in America. He lives in College Station, Texas.
Arnold Krammer is professor of history at Texas A & M University and the author of the highly acclaimed Nazi Prisoners of War in America. He lives in College Station, Texas.
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Twice as many German Americans held in camps than Japanese Americans! Where is their compensation?
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The war beyond racism,
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So it seems that Americans actually fought a real enemy in WW2.No phobia,no groundless hate,a real enemy.Trust was not an option.Thank God it's over.This book tells it like it was-enlightened history.Heartily recommended.
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