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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Martin F. Auger. Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in Southern Quebec, 1940–46. (Studies in Canadian Military History, number 9.) Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 227. $85.00.
Late in World War II , Martin F. Auger's grandfather was allotted a German prisoner of war to help on his Quebec farm. Sixty years later, his grandson explored an experience few Canadians and even fewer Quebeckers remember. Thanks to the new Canadian War Museum, we can share what he learned.	1
When Canada went to war in 1939, its wide-ranging War Measures Act allowed it to open two camps and to intern German aliens of military age as well as Canadians who showed Nazi or kindred disloyalty, among them, by 1940, the popular mayor of Montreal, Camillien Houde. When Benito Mussolini attacked France, a rather larger representation of Italian Canadians entered the camp because of real or alleged Fascist sympathies. So far, civilian internment had followed the precedents of 1914, with rather more moderation.	2
Meanwhile, in Great Britain, a government wrestling with imminent Nazi invasion amid a thick cloud of rumor and incipient panic, decided to lock up every German citizen, regardless of the fact that two-thirds of them were refugees from Nazism. Having done so, the British realized that their 75,000 prisoners might be a time bomb if the Nazi hordes swarmed ashore. Surely Canada, its largest ally in 1940, would take on this burden. As usual, Canada's wartime government initially balked. W. L. Mackenzie King's Liberals instinctively resisted commitments.	. . .

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