Lisa Scottoline, the well known and best-selling author of legal thrillers, based her latest book, Killer Smile on a long-buried family secret. During WWII her grandparents were forced to register as "enemy aliens" (as were thousand of other Italian immigrants) had their home searched and some property removed. Although the internment of the Japanese during WWII is well-known, the mistreatment of Germans and Italians during the same period is less known.
"Imagine if tomorrow the federal government decided to order every Iraqi-born person living in America to register, and then we took them out of their houses, confiscated their property and detained them in camps, all without trials because they haven't actually been charged with a crime," she said. "Can you lock up a whole group of people because they scare you?"
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