| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Nationale Minoritäten im Krieg: "Feindliche Ausländer" und die amerikanische Heimatfront während des Ersten Weltkriegs (National minorities in war: "Enemy foreigners" and the American home front during World War I). By Jörg Nagler. (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2000. 758 pp. DM 68, ISBN 3-930908-61-1.) In German.

Jörg Nagler has produced an impressive summary of how the U.S. government handled the question of "enemy aliens" during World War I and its interaction with and coordination and deployment of public opinion on the home front. This is the first study of its kind to treat the entire question in one monograph. Nagler's work concentrates principally on Germans and German Americans: those Germans who found themselves in the United States at the moment when the United States declared war on the Central Powers and especially on German Americans. Nagler closely follows the manuscript and secondary sources that he has mastered, and they laid out for him the way to approach the task. Primarily based on U.S. government archival sources, Nagler's history shows the development of the bureaucracies and the governmental thinking that led to the arrest and/or internment of 8,500 to 10,000 people during and just after the war, a revision upward of the number 6,300 that was previously accepted as accurate. . . .

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