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Una Storia Segreta - The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II (Paperback)
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Una Storia Segreta - The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II (Paperback)
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Cultural Writing. Introduction by Lawrence DiStasi. 1942, the first
full year of World War II for the United States, was a time of fear
and uncertainty for Americans of Italian descent. Wartime
regulations required that 600,000 Italian "resident aliens" carry
photo-identity cards, restricted their freedom of movement, and
forced an estimated 10,000 along the West Coast to relocate. Local
police searched homes for guns, cameras, and shortwave radios.
Within six months after war was declared, 1,500 Italian resident
aliens were arrested for curfew, travel, and contraband violations,
and some 250 were imprisoned in military camps for up to two years.
Even some naturalized citizens had to leave their homes and
businesses because the military decided that they were too
dangerous to remain in strategic areas. All but forgotten in the
post-war years, obscured by the story of the Japanese-American
internment, officially denied, and simply repressed as a disturbing
and shameful memory, this secret stor
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