I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that I've read somewhere that there were limited forms of internment camps for German-Americans and Canadians in some areas as well. I better get on top of this info, I'm supposed to co-teach a class on WWII history next year...
Also, that Bill Barnes thing sounds interesting, in a horrifying way. Do you remember what issue it's from, DM? I have sort of been collecting these kinds of things with the idea of someday making them into some sort of project.
Actually, I've been thinking less about the horror implicit in all of this than of the willingness of private publishers operating in relative autonomy to toe so willingly official propaganda lines, particularly in military conflicts or even just atmospheres of general military hostility. Thinking from this angle, the rabid anticommunism from the late 1940s through the 1970s is especially interesting. The change from Japanese people as warlike beasts-Chinese people as virtuous but overwhelmed victims to Japanese people as plucky American allies-Chinese people as marauding red hordes came really abruptly following the end of the war. My favorite capsule expression of this trend is in a story from Simon and Kirby's Fighting American in which the heroes go to Tokyo to help out an Uncle Sam outfit wearing Tokyoite conman type to outwit some gorilla-like and aggressive Chinese agents. This sort of thing continued all through the 60s, probably reaching its zenith in the frothingly anticommunist stories in the early Marvel superhero and monster stories. Japanese people had mostly disappeared by then, but the red Chinese popped up everywhere as a constant menace and there were endless references to the "bamboo curtain" around China.
