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Classifying Enemy Aliens

  • 1942-Oct-18

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Ernst K. Fabisch writes to the editor of the New York Times about the United States government's decision to declassify Italian immigrants as "Enemy Aliens." Fabisch holds that most enemy aliens are refugees who fled from Nazi Germany and are not a threat to the United States.

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  • The New York Times Company
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute
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  • Council on Library and Information Resources

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  • Series II: Max Bredig Papers, 1911-1968
  • Series II, Sub-Series II: Max Bredig Subject File, 1911-1968
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  • Box 10, Folder 26

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Fabisch, Ernst K. “Classifying Enemy Aliens,” October 18, 1942. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 10, Folder 26. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/tcgpjpg.

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