German culture and the German language were virtually erased from American society almost overnight — sauerkraut was rebranded as “Liberty cabbage,” seriously — and as historian Matthew Stibbe writes, the “enemy alien hysteria” of the war years fed right into the Red Scare immediately afterward:

President Trump unveiled a new migrant detention center in the Florida swamplands he calls “Alligator Alcatraz.” In the facility, hastily constructed in mere days, the administration plans to hold about 3,