On 11/29/2011 10:43 PM, aemeijers wrote:
On 11/29/2011 12:12 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 11/28/2011 6:38 PM, Home Guy wrote:
HeyBub wrote:

During WW2 we had thousands of American citizens held in POW
camps throughout the country without access to American courts

not true. There were "concentration camps" filled with thousands
of American Citizens, but the did have access to American Courts

There were absolutely zero POW camps that held American Citizens
in the USA during WW2

You must live in a fantasy world. Over 400,000 German soldiers were
held in American POW camps

400k germans held in POW camps in Europe - not on US soil.

You either believe that none held U.S. citizenship or that

There are Geneva conventions about combatants wearing uniforms and their
rights therein - I would suppose that if you are captured in combat
wearing the uniform of the enemy then you are treated as the enemy
regardless what your legal citizenship is.

No POW ever had access to American civilian courts.

No POW probably ever set foot on US soil (while being a POW that is).

We had German POW's here in Alabamastan during WWII, funny thing, we now
have a Mercedes Benz factory. ^_^

TDD

Home Guy is clueless- there were POW camps for Germans all over the
states, and they were treated quite well, barely confined at all in many
cases, and allowed to work for local farmers and keep their wages. There
is a German POW cemetery attached to the National Cemetery a few miles
from here, where a couple dozen POWs who died in a truck accident coming
back from farm work are buried. Every year the head guy from the German
consulate in Detroit comes over, and they hold a ceremony, with local
vet groups providing an honor guard. Many of the POWs liked it so well
here in upper midwest, that after the war, they went home and got their
wives, and came right back to stay.

Remember, in many parts of the country, a lot of people had German
ancestors only a generation or three back. While everyone hated Hitler
and the Nazis, they were a lot more forgiving to some poor schlub who
got drafted into Hitler's army.

aem sends...

It's funny that I know a lot of folks from the former Soviet Union who
live in the area. Darn, The U.S. is such an awful place we can't stop
people from coming here. ^_^

TDD