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The Sharp Park Detention Station was a Japanese, Italian and German Internment camp located in northern California on land owned by San Francisco in Pacifica. [2] Open from March 30, 1942, until 1946, the camp was built to hold as many as 600 detainees, but later held approximately 2,500 detainees.
vol. 3: Research on the German-American Experience of World War One; vol. 4: The World War Two Experience: the Internment of German-Americans section 1: From Suspicion to Internment: U.S. government policy toward German-Americans, 1939–48; section 2: Government Preparation for and implementation of the repatriation of German-Americans, 1943 ...
Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers which are now most commonly known as internment camps or incarceration centers.
Her father was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were rounded up and sent to one of ten internment camps built across the country after the United States entered World War II.
The locations of internment camps for German-Americans during World War II. Oklahoma housed German and Italian POW's at Fort Reno, located near El Reno, and Camp Gruber, near Braggs, Oklahoma. Almost 120,000 Japanese Americans and resident Japanese aliens would eventually be removed from their homes and relocated.
In this photo provided by the National Archives, Japanese Americans, including American Legion members and Boy Scouts, participate in Memorial Day services at the Manzanar Relocation Center, an ...
Camp Tulelake was a federal work facility and War Relocation Authority isolation center located in Siskiyou County, five miles (8 km) west of Tulelake, California.It was established by the United States government in 1935 during the Great Depression for vocational training and work relief for young men, in a program known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. [1]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) operated camps officially called Internment Camps, which were used to detain those suspected of crimes or of "enemy sympathies". The government also operated camps for a number of German Americans and Italian Americans, [112] [113] who sometimes were assigned to share facilities with the Japanese Americans. The ...