My grandparents and father were interned in one of these camps (not sure if in this specific one). I don't know how well known it is, I never saw any discussion about it and only heard about it in family stories.
On the one hand it's understandable that the British were suspicious of German nationals, but I'm not sure how big a threat my toddler father was to The War Effort™.
lanzkron OP t1_iveql1e wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire by lanzkron
>As incredible as America's own internment of Japanese-Americans. George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, was actually born in one of those camps.
I would argue it's more incredible since the German Jews had a better reason to not be on their motherland's side in this war.