Loyalty on Trial.Loyalty On Trial Erik V. Wolter with Robert J. Masters iUniverse.com, Inc. 2021 Pine Lake Pine Lake may refer to: Places Canada
0595327036 $26.95 www.iuniverse.com Loyalty On Trial is an in-depth case study and true story of the FBI's and American government's persecution of a German-American citizen during World War II. Arthur Wolter's membership in an organization targeted as "un-American" by J. Edgar Hoover Noun 1. J. Edgar Hoover - United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972) John Edgar Hoover, Hoover and Wolter's own writings were used against him in an attempt to take away his citizenship; thousands of German-Americans like him were confronted with internment internment, in international law, detention of the nationals or property of an enemy or a belligerent. A belligerent will intern enemy merchant ships or take them as prize, and a neutral should intern both belligerent ships that fail to leave its ports within a , forced expatriation, or worse due to fears of internal sabotage. Arthur Wolter's son is the author of Loyalty trial; he pieces together the story from a 700 page trial transcript, Arthur Wolter's FBI file, newspaper clippings referring to the trial, and other sources. Loyalty On Trial relies so heavily on primary sources and the transcript of the trial itself that it does not pretend to read like a novel; instead, it offers the straight facts to the reader, leaving him or her to judge Wolter's loyalty and the dubious American policy that almost certainly forced unjust imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. and deportation deportation, expulsion of an alien from a country by an act of its government. The term is not applied ordinarily to sending a national into exile or to committing one convicted of crime to an overseas penal colony (historically called transportation). upon thousands of innocent German-Americans. A highly recommended, keenly relevant account especially in relation to modern-day desires to bend the limits of American rights. |
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