Nazi prison guard living in Tennessee gets deported

[jimrtex]

Should an American soldier who guarded a Japanese internment camp be charged with a crime? Couldn't he have requested a transfer?

[jimrtex]

Should an American soldier who guarded a Japanese internment camp be charged with a crime? Couldn't he have requested a transfer?

These aren't remotely the same, and to say they were is literal 1945 Nazi propaganda.

What was this basis for internment in both cases?

Why am I being sent to this place? You are a J....

[jimrtex]

Should an American soldier who guarded a Japanese internment camp be charged with a crime? Couldn't he have requested a transfer?

These aren't remotely the same, and to say they were is literal 1945 Nazi propaganda.

What was this basis for internment in both cases?

Why am I being sent to this place? You are a J....

American internment of the Japanese was wrong and you will find no disagreement on that. However, Japanese internment was not used as a means to kill the Japanese or use them as slave labor. The Holocaust resulted in the murder of millions. One is so much worse than the other as to make any direct comparison ridiculous.

And I've gotta say, if someone told me yesterday that another blue av would join the cause in this thread, I would've guessed you.

How does this excuse the action of the prison guards? They were young. They had likely been taught that these J... were not really Americans/Germans. They likely would have been shot if they deserted.

[jimrtex]

Should an American soldier who guarded a Japanese internment camp be charged with a crime? Couldn't he have requested a transfer?

These aren't remotely the same, and to say they were is literal 1945 Nazi propaganda.

What was this basis for internment in both cases?

Why am I being sent to this place? You are a J....

American internment of the Japanese was wrong and you will find no disagreement on that. However, Japanese internment was not used as a means to kill the Japanese or use them as slave labor. The Holocaust resulted in the murder of millions. One is so much worse than the other as to make any direct comparison ridiculous.

And I've gotta say, if someone told me yesterday that another blue av would join the cause in this thread, I would've guessed you.

How does this excuse the action of the prison guards? They were young. They had likely been taught that these J... were not really Americans/Germans. They likely would have been shot if they deserted.

A single American was shot for desertion in WWII, on the front lines in France. To say that someone objecting to serving at a Japanese internment camp would "likely have been shot" is ridiculous. You really have to force the comparison here; the situations are very different.

Our hypothetical American private would have known that?