Posted on 07/12/2013 7:27:07 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
I remember Richard Basehart playing the CO of Andersonville
The worst camps had to be if you were captured by “Japs”
in ww2.Brutal sob’s then.
Who cares? What’s your point? The government robbed these folks of their freedom without due process
I suspect that if the US had stayed out of The Great War, Germany may very well have won, and a certain Austrian painter would have died in anonymity.
By the time the Germans launched their Spring Offensive in 1918, they were nearly dead, but the French were in even worse condition, and the Germans probably would have taken Paris if not stopped by the Americans at Belleau Wood.
Oh I don’t. I blame him for what he did. You were listing “progressive” presidents. Lincoln was the first.
see
The Progressive Era’s Legacy in The New Deal
at: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1228
No flaming liberal here, but what really pist me off was when I read that German prisoners in the south could go to the movies and sit in the lower section, but black U.S. soldiers still had to sit in the balcony.
Please give examples of how Lincoln was a Progressive President.
my grandfathers uncle died at the concentration camp in andersonville
People should not confuse POW camps for internment camps. They’re not completely dissimilar but they’re not the same thing either.
IIRC, after the war ALL German POWs were repatriated to their Fatherland, bombed into ruins & everything. Those who wished to return to America did so as foreign civilians & went through the usual immigration procedures. Many new German immigrants were of course not former POWs but actual Nazi war criminals and they are still being caught well into their nineties.
Hmmm... no mention here yet about the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans who like WWI German-Americans were also citizens.
What is largely discussed is Woodrow Wilson. I knew he was a progressive but never knew what an idiot he was regarding foreign relations. Peace without victory?
The more I read of these times, the more I am reading of the present, honestly.
Are you calling the carving out of reservations for the Indians, “concentration camps”?
You apparently missed reading about the German Bundts both in WWI and WWII. It was not just that people were interned. The interned were indeed antiUS and proGerman.
Eugene V. Debs
What’s your point? The government has been doing it for years - that’s my point.
The only president worse than Woody is Barry.
He did unfortunately follow through with the Progressive idea of federal railroads, but he was not the first to do so. Also, he used the railways for the protection –which is in the purview of any US President - of the attacks against the Federal Government - to protect the Constitution which the Democrat Slave states tried to destroy. And what else do you think was progressive about him?
Yes. The 19th century implementation of Indian Reservations certainly warrant that label.
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