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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 , [ 107 ] [ 108 ] who sometimes were assigned to share facilities with the Japanese Americans.
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
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, 1943–1948; section 3: German-American Camp Newspapers: Internees View of Life in Internment; vol. 5: Germanophobia in the U.S.:
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
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.
Granada War Relocation Center, known to the internees as Camp Amache (/ ɑː m ɑː tʃ i / ah-mah-chee) and later designated the Amache National Historic Site, was a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Prowers County, Colorado.
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, a site in Colorado that once held thousands of Japanese Americans opened its doors this week as the country’s newest national park. ... Camp Amache ...
Camp Harmony is the unofficial euphemistic name of the Puyallup Assembly Center, a temporary facility within the system of internment camps set up ... the end of the ...