America is always and forever bad. The virtues of our forebears must never be highlighted. Only their sins and shortcomings should be pointed out.

There was a similar case here in Arizona.

Internment and concentration camps are the same thing.

> "for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order."

There is a difference between death camps and internment/concentration.

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During the 2015 refugee crisis, hundreds of thousands of people were placed in internment camps across Europe, one of the most notable being the 'Calais Jungle' in France. So, one, this establishes that internment camps are still to this day legitimised policy responses to an influx of refugees.

Secondly, Russia has been interning Ukrainian refugees in camps since it invaded the country last February, where they are tortured before being 'filtrated' into Russia. Bosnian refugees were systematically tortured in Serbian refugee camps in the 1990s. In 1974, Paramali Forest camp was set up in Cyprus to take in Greek Cypriot refugees after Turkey invaded the island. So, two, the three most recent examples of European nations interning refugees during times of war show that there's no reason why an internment camp 'wouldn't happen today'.

In the US there was a similar camp too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/nyregion/oswego-jewish-refugees-world-war-two.html

My wife is from Amarillo and a group of Germans ended up there. There’s a church they built you can still visit. It’s pretty cool. Everything your podcast said her older relatives echoed. These people, mainly men, lived in the Texas panhandle and worked. Pretty wild.

Nearly 2000 km. They very probably could have got lost and died. Their vehicle was empty.
I told them not to attempted, and to ask about it at the tourism office.
I told my mother about this and she told me about her friend her in Japan whose child didn’t walk on grass until they were about 10.
She said it’s not standard like that but they would have expected a level of population density like Japan, with fuel stations and good roads all the way there. This was before smart phones as well.
I used to drive to roxby downs from Adelaide, which is much closer and it’s still scary to think of being lost out there and running out of fuel

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It's probably not as informative as you think it is. He is a proper historian, but his YouTube channel is just full of 'extraordinary' tales which have been rushed through with little proper research, which is why he can post so many of them. He's also been caught outright plagiarising other people's work and just reading verbatim from a WW2 enthusiast forum.

I know the old saying is that pictures are hung, people are hanged. Suppose really we need a new version. They can be hung or hanged but they're having a drastically different weekend off being publicly hung.

I’m not familiar with the geography of Australia, how far is Adelaide from Ayers Rock?

Ooh thank you, was not aware of that.

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There was a major breakout from a POW camp near Bridgend, South Wales right as the war was coming to a close.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51755803

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I’ve watched it a little bit, very informative but not a huge fan of his delivery style.

My dads family used to run a hotel and he told me a story of a long time resident thats pretty sad.

He was a pole who was pressed into the russian army after they hung his family, then captured and pressed into the german army. He was then captured by the english and sent to a Scottish POW camp who tortured him.

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oh yeah… Are you a fan of Mark felton’s channel?

Japanese troops also landed in WA but turned back before encountering anyone

Yeah I don't think your toddler father was the one they were concerned about. Did you never consider the idea that the German government might ask one or two of its citizens to... Oh, I don't know, lie for espionage purposes?

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I’m in aus too. Did you know that during the war Japanese reconnaissance planes flew in land as far as Uluru/Ayers Rock, and it was suppressed from the papers to avoid public panic?

The reason I mentioned it is I can’t help but laugh because the pilots must have thought they were going crazy, there’s just miles and miles of absolutely nothing and even today Japanese people who visit are stunned by the scale of distance out there.

I’m in Adelaide and one morning in the city a Japanese couple in a Toyota Camry wagon stopped next to me and asked ‘ excuse me please which way is it to Ayers Rock?’. I swear on my life this is a true story.