A Wartime Detention

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By John Walters on Thursday, November 29, 2001.
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When he was a teenager, Max Ebel fled Nazi Germany to come to America. But after World War II broke out, he became a statistic. He was among the thousands of German-Americans arrested and detained for little or no reason. He ended up living in harsh conditions in rural North Dakota. Max talks about his experiences and his daughter Karen talks about her campaign to get government recognition for the treatment of German-Americans and to prevent similar ethnic targeting today. Find out more at www.foitimes.com/internment

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