Price of Safety

It is both odd and ironic to think of the British rounding up Italians and Germans and putting them in camps, when one of the very things that they were fighting for was to stop the Germans, which included their persecution of Jewish people.  This same things was happening in America too, except with Japanese-Americans.  While surfing through the E.C. pictures, I actually came across a picture of a grocery store with the sign "I am (an) American" in the window.  The picture was put up after the owner had to sell his store and go to a camp.  

In Britain, Italian restaurants and ice cream parlors were attacked, and both Germans and Italians were rounded up.  This really shows the trust level in both the U.S. and Britain when the war broke out.  How anybody, even citizens of their own country, with German, Japanese, or Italian relations was put in the camps, just shows how no one was taking any chances.  Part of it might have been just for the feeling of security for the British or American people.