Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War

Enemies among Us examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of the United States' selective relocation and internment of its own citizens and enemy aliens, as well as the effects of internment on those who experienced it. It reveals the similarities in the U.S. governments procedures for those they perceived to be domestic and hemispheric threats, regardless of race.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2024
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Recent decades have brought increased attention to the United States' treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II, but fewer people are aware of the extent of the country's relocation, internment, and repatriation of German and Italian Americans, who were interned in greater numbers than Japanese Americans. The United States also assisted other countries, particularly in Latin America, in expelling "dangerous" aliens, primarily Germans. In his book Enemies among Us, John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America's selective relocation and internment of its own citizens and enemy aliens, as well as the effects of internment on those who experienced it. Schmitz analyzes the similarities in the U.S. government's procedures for those they perceived to be domestic and hemispheric threats, revealing the consistencies in the government's treatment of these groups, regardless of race. By reframing wartime relocation and internment through a broader chronological perspective and considering policies in the wider Western Hemisphere, Enemies among Us provides new conclusions as to why the United States relocated, interned, and repatriated both aliens and citizens considered enemies.

Weight: 646g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781496238870