Nebraska Doppelganger

Nebraska Doppelganger” is based on the fact that several hundred American men and women found themselves on the wrong side of the fighting when the United States entered World War II in 1941. Many of these Americans were immigrants or sons and daughters of immigrants visiting relatives in their respective homelands of Japan, Italy, and Germany. One American G.I. recalled being taken prisoner in North Africa by an Italian major, who had been a New York City cab driver. He had a wife and kids back in Brooklyn and spoke “poi-fect” English. In the late 1930s, a number of German immigrants sent their American-born sons back to Germany to fight for the Fatherland. Little did they know that soon they would be facing their fellow Americans.