German-American Family internment Camp in Crystal City during WWII
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- This series consists of films of a Crystal City, Texas family detention camp (internment camp) for Japanese-Americans (Nisei) and German-Americans that was photographed in 1942-1943, then later produced by the Information Services Branch during the period 1950 to 1954. Although there is no actuality sound, the first film has a sound narration by Bern Barard, Chief, Detention Officer and introductory remarks by A. R. Macke, Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Agency.
You never hear about the Germans & Italians that had to go through this. They only teach abut the Japanese today. Propaganda is power.
Yes. They try to make America look racist towards non-whites. Whites have also been victims of U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
I was surprised to hear about this. Not many videos of it but I don't know why. I don't think it benefits anybody hiding it.
They themselves don't want to talk about it.
Italians don't speak of it.
Germans don't mention it.
Guess citizens didn't defend their own DNA.
Now they worship Colombus statue tho .
We didn't hear of small pox either .
But we sure heard of Holocaust, Mao ,Selina and Hitler.
Also we heard of flu in 2020.
One of my grandfather’s was German and the other was Japanese. I have a connection to both sides. The German/Italian American internment is not comparable to the Japanese American internment. If you study the history you will understand what I mean by that.
My family came here from Germany in 1923 and my Dad was born in 1929. Life was not easy for German immigrants during WW2. My Dad's uncle lost a job because of German nationality and they made no bones about telling him exactly that (those were different times...). A neighbor said my Grandparents had Nazi slogans on their wall, when all it was was the Lord's Prayer in German.
One night, my Dad and a couple of other teenage boneheads rode their bikes down to the seashore: they'd heard that you could hear and see ships on their way back and forth to New York city being torpedoed by German subs.
When they got there they were detained by Federal Authorities: every last one of them an American born son of a German family!
They were pretty quickly released: I guess the agents in charge had bonehead teenage sons of their own! (Grandpa was not very happy!)
Meanwhile my family lost contact with the ones that were still back in Germany. My Grandfather lost a brother to the war and came close to losing a second one too. Times being as they were, they didn't find out until about three years later.
Does that mean two of your uncles were on the small mustache side? Or is your family saying they were lost as civilians?
Yes,
They were German men who happened to be there during WW2, they got drafted and Nazi Germany didn't have much tolerance for conscientious objectors.
Both were men in their thirties with wives and kids back home and both were sent to Russia late in the war. Germany was basically running out of men of a proper age to fight in combat and was taking ones too old before they started taking ones too young.
One was either killed in action or taken prisoner and died in a POW camp. Either way, he was never heard from again. The other got his leg shot up and only kept it because he refused to allow an amputation.
@@Narrowgaugefilms That’s awful. It’s a horrible situation for all parties involved. Thank you for sharing their story with me.
Sad the Japanese get all the recognition and MONEY for internment
Will Jews acknowlege German american suffering world war 2. Never
Looks like a good time! No wonder my family Anglicized our surname
Fun fact. Apparently there were also german jews who were detained and held in internment camps. However they were separated from germans as there were fears that germans may do something fo the jews.
How is this about German POW's?
I think i see D. Trump there