Why didn't the US put 100,000 Italians and Germans in internment camps like they did to the Japanese? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Why didn't the US put 100,000 Italians and Germans in internment camps like they did to the Japanese?

by pogue242

I assume that the US didn't put all Italians and Germans in camps because of the sheer size of their population but why was it still 10x less than the amount of Japanese-Americans put in camps?

MoroseMapleLeaf

Here's an earlier, pretty comprehensive answer from u/kieslowskifan. If you want to read more about this, I'd recommend starting with Arnold Kramer's Undue Process.