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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticGrady, Lee
Title, AnalyticAmerica's "Alien Enemies": Registering as German in Wisconsin during World War I
Journal TitleWisconsin Magazine of History
Date of PublicationWinter 2018
Volume ID102
Issue ID2
Location in Work4-17, ill.
View Onlinehttp://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/wmh/id/52999/show/52944/rec/2
AbstractIn 1918, President Wilson signed an order requiring all "enemy aliens" to register with the government. The order applied to anyone who had been born in Germany or one of its allied countries and was not yet naturalized. With over ten percent of the German-born population in the United States, Wisconsin was disproportionately impacted by the measure. Otto and Ida Grady, the author's great-grandparents, were among those forced to register. They had arrived in Wisconsin as children fifty years earlier.
NotesIncludes bibliographical references. Donated by J Tiedemann, February 2020.
Call NumberMKI P2020-10
MKI TermsGerman Americans -- Wisconsin/ World War, 1914-1918/ Anti-German sentiment|