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The same rationale was behind the decision to not send most German Americans or Italian Americans to the camps. People of Italian and German ancestry made up too large a proportion of the US population. As with the Japanese people of the Hawaiian Islands, the government decided that people of European descent were too important to the country’s economy and could not be removed from the East Coast and interned. Of course, bias and prejudice also influenced this decision.
–“Stories of Internment”
What factored into the government’s decision not to send most German Americans and Italian Americans to the camps? Check all that apply.
