Chapter 722 Suspicion

President Wilkie and a group of senior officials were discussing when an alarm was sounded that a German bomber formation was discovered.

"These Germans are really punctual." President Wilkie muttered, but there was no worry on everyone's face, but a hint of expectation. Because the factory rushed to build 10 150mm anti-aircraft guns, deployed on the route passed by the German bombers, ready to give them a heavy blow.

"The German bomber formation is 200 kilometers away from the anti-aircraft gun position."

"150 kilometers."

"100 kilometers."

"80 kilometers."

"60 kilometers."

Everyone held their breath and waited for the German bomber formation to enter the range of the anti-aircraft gun, but the next second, news came that the German bomber formation suddenly changed its course and bypassed the anti-aircraft gun position!

"!!" Everyone had a black line on their faces. It was obvious that they were fooled by the Germans again. It seemed that the Germans had already known the intelligence of their own anti-aircraft gun positions. How could they step into this trap obediently?

Now that the Germans have changed their course, they are helpless. These heavy anti-aircraft guns are not light enough to be quickly assembled on a car and run, and even if they are assembled immediately, they can't catch up with the planes in the sky!

"The Germans must have planted a lot of spies in our country. We have to dig them all out!" President Wilkie angrily slammed the table and said sternly.

"I think those Germans should be strictly investigated!" After all, those Germans account for 17% of the US population, which is a huge number.

As early as World War I, the US government had already taken action against Germans.

During World War I, these German Americans were called "enemy aliens" by Americans. In order to prevent them from aiding the enemy and causing damage in the country, the US government took a series of relevant measures. During the war, the US government labeled 500,000 German Americans as "enemy aliens" and focused on monitoring many of them. About 6,000 men and a few women were sent to detention camps.

In addition to government surveillance, there are many so-called "patriotic citizens" who secretly monitor German Americans. They are particularly keen on exposing suspicious neighbors and colleagues.

In addition, the US government also set up a special Foreign Nationals Property Administration. As the name suggests, it is a department specifically for seizing and confiscating the property of so-called imperial expatriates. They hired hundreds of officials and attacked from all sides. During World War I, they seized nearly $500 million in private property that may be related to the war.

Poor German Americans, on the one hand, expressed disappointment and anger at the German atrocities, and on the other hand, they were monitored by the authorities in the United States, hostile to society, and even many people were imprisoned and their property was confiscated. So in order not to be isolated and hostile, German Americans decided to draw a clear line with Germany, abandon the German language, abandon German culture, and completely integrate into the United States. Not only did they become completely American in terms of identity, but they were also completely Americanized in terms of thought and culture.

After more than 20 years of de-Germanization, German Americans have completely regarded themselves as Americans. In World War II, many German Americans joined the army and participated in the war against Germany. Even the five-star generals of the United States, Eisenhower and Nimitz, were German Americans. Therefore, except for a few German Americans who were brainwashed by the Nazi culture and imprisoned during World War II, most German Americans were no different from ordinary Americans, so the US government did not have to consider the issue of German Americans in the country.

What is dramatic is that in the original time and space, due to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the island country in World War II, Japanese Americans lived the life of German Americans in World War I. They became the new "enemy expatriates". The US government used the tricks it used on German Americans on Japanese Americans again until the end of World War II.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the war, various intelligence departments carried out a thorough investigation and dug out a lot of small fish and shrimps, but there was no other harvest. The Germans' senior spies seemed to have taken root in the United States and could not be pulled out.

In addition to these German Americans, there is another group of people who are also highly suspected, that is, the Jews in the United States.

In the early 20th century, Americans' views on Jews were based on the hostile description of Jews by early Christianity, and they developed it. Ideas such as "Jews control American business" and "Jews cause economic recession", especially Shylock-like clichés, were already obvious in the late 19th century. During the first anti-Semitism cliché in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ideas such as Jews were "seized by the American economy", "racial pariahs who destroyed American blood", and "subversive factors in the country" were rampant, and Jews were strongly attacked in all aspects of American social life.

In daily life, just as the job advertisements in the past had stated that they only wanted "Protestants" to exclude the Irish, now they stated that they only wanted "Christians"; in the medical field, there were also requirements to set limits on Jewish doctors (especially dentists and psychiatrists); real estate owners made a convention: "Hebrew descendants do not speak"; in about half of the states in the United States, the "Sunday law" based on the Christian tradition imposed the rule of "no business on Sundays" on Jewish shop owners; the problem of resort hotels refusing Jews to stay was still very serious...

Between 1915 and 1932, five anti-Semitic organizations were established in the United States. In 1933, nine anti-Semitic organizations were established. In the five years from 1934 to 1939, the number of anti-Semitic organizations grew to 105, not including the anti-Semitic organizations in smaller cities in the West and Midwest. There are many anti-Semitic organizations whose members print and distribute anti-Semitic literature and newspapers. Some anti-Semitic newspapers are beautifully printed and expensive, and you can tell at a glance that there are wealthy sponsors behind them.

Some radical anti-Semitic organizations fired at Jewish synagogues. Arson and explosions against Jews were not uncommon. There were anti-Jewish graffiti on the walls, and hundreds of tombstones were knocked down in Jewish cemeteries across the United States.

The anti-Semitic trend in American society affected the government's decision-making, causing the US government to be indifferent to the dangerous situation of European Jews before and during World War II in the original time and space. In the late 1930s, millions of Jews in Europe were under the iron hoof of the German Nazis. When Jewish refugees fled Europe to escape Nazi persecution, the United States implemented an exclusionary policy against Jewish refugees for its own interests. In 1939, the "St. Louis" passenger ship, loaded with Jewish refugees, entered the New York Harbor. The hopeful Jewish refugees looked excitedly at the bustling crowds and the endless stream of vehicles on the coast, eager to go ashore as soon as possible to start a new life. However, after negotiating with the US Immigration Bureau officials, they were refused to go ashore. The desperate Jewish refugees had to leave. As a result, the "St. Louis" passenger ship was sunk by a German submarine on the way back to Europe, and all the refugees died.

At that time, the American news media, including the New York Times, did not report on the Nazi massacre of Jews, and the Christian church, political circles, and intellectual circles remained silent on this.

Now the Jews in Europe are in collusion with Germany, and even the Jews in the United States are flirting with Germany.