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Doomscrolling in 🇯🇵 Writer of @CongressRadar Former @Democracyfund. Home cook. 🏀. US History PhD. #LGM. #Wahoowa. Views mine.
Jun 20, 2018 9 tweets 2 min read
Here’s a sketch of what’s coming next from US historical context During World War I the US interned thousands of Germans. Passengers on a steamer in NY Harbor when the US declared war were stuck here for years. US Gov also took their property The pretext was fear of continued sabotage of US industry by German agents - munitions plant in NJ was bombed in 1916