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EPISODE · Dec 19, 2025 · 9 MIN

Brides were stripped of U.S. citizenship at the altar

from Offbeat Oregon History podcast · host Finn J.D. John

Women who'd married German men suddenly learned they'd been legally (and very unconstitutionally) made stateless, and were forced to register as 'enemy aliens'; those who'd married Chinese men fared even worse. (Statewide; 1910s, 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1312e-germans-in-oregon-enemy-aliens.html)

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