98% of Australia’s Japanese population were sent to internment camps during the second world war.
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Black and Asian American communities have been portrayed as in opposition to each other. Multiracial Kamala Harris, both Asian American and Black, represents the potential for coalition building.
4,500 people with German ancestry were interned in Australia when the first world war broke out. A new translation project sheds light on their experiences.
During World War II, many Anglo-Italians who had come to the UK as economic migrants, were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ – and some deported.
Many thousands of Germans got through internment by performing farces, dressing up as women and clapping along to the can-can.
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