That’s why I refer to the Prince of Wales as Charles Battenberg-Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. When I’m not calling his entire family usurpers. Franz Herzog von Bayern is the rightful King of England and Scotland. Join me in raising a glass to the King across the water. All right, I’m in North America, so they’re both across the water. My point, whatever it is, remains.

The next trilogy from Brother Orson (blindref here), detailing the heroism inherent in conducting War on the Home Front as if it were a video game with carricatures, instead of a life- and economy-destroying event.

I don’t know what that is but it scares the shit out of me.

(2) It’s one thing to maintain a constant level of stupidity while other things remain constant. It’s something else to do so while other things (nuclear weapons, growing population and cological devastation, global warming etc) get worse.

And my #19 should be qualified by a comment which may not have posted yet. Minnesota was actually very tense during WWI, with a police-state-like Committee of Public Safety.

“Some areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin are close to 100% German. I doubt that those Germans had problems.”

The patterns of relocation of Japanese-Americans throws some interesting light on where demographic realities and racial/economic hostilities crossed. Japanese-Americans were shipped to internment centers out of designated military areas, including practically all the West coast…but not Hawaii, the place you’d assume a demand for internment and depopulation would be strongest. Why not? In part because Japanese-Americans made up such a large portion of the islands’ population that to relocate them all might have crashed the local economy entirely. I suspect similar reasoning was at play in not harassing too much German-Americans who lived in communities as compact and homogenous as those in some parts of the upper Midwest.

Matt,

“I do believe that the interned Germans (and Italians) were given individual hearings about loyalty and almost all were released in a fairly short period of time unlike the Japanese. At least this is what I recall reading on Eric Muller’s site.”

Many were, but perhaps just as many weren’t. Complete data is extremely hard to come by and unreliable, because so many different agencies were involved in targeting, interviewing, detaining and interning suspected German and Italian-Americans on an ad hoc basis; there was no standard set of procedures. For example, in the case of Mathias Borniger—the Wichita, KS, resident whose story I told on my blog—you had a Boeing employee who someone thought might be sneaking photos of planes off to Hitler, who was picked up immediately after Pearl Harbor, interrogated, shipped off to a military camp for four months, then to an itnernment camp where he was held for nearly two years, being released in the fall of 1943. His case does not appear to have been atypical.

Off the top of my head, Balkan wars? I don’t remember reading anything about French speakers getting lynched in Frankfurt in 1814, nor in Metz in 1870.

1848 Hungarian uprising? 1877-8 anti-Circassian, Greek, Romanian, Bulgar, or anti-Turkish popular activism, a la the USA in 1914?

I’m having trouble remembering any. I am also having trouble recalling incidents of greater violence occurring in Great Britain or France than in the US.

The US had it worse.

Uhh, except for Dutch, where Diets is not quite extinct, though the actions of those who promote its use are sending it in that direction.

By 1932 the targets of the CPS were running the state, with a near-Socialist platform (the Farmer-Labor Party).