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These camps often held German and Italian detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [1] Fort McDowell/Angel Island, California; Camp Blanding, Florida; Camp Forrest, Tennessee; Camp Livingston, Louisiana; Camp Lordsburg, New Mexico; Camp McCoy, Wisconsin; Florence, Arizona; Fort Bliss, New Mexico and Texas; Fort Howard, Maryland; Fort Lewis ...
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.:
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.
Eighty years ago, the Japanese and Japanese Americans — men, women, kids, two, three generations of families who had been locked up in wartime incarceration camps like Manzanar — were allowed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
In California Camp Manzanar and Camp Tulelake were built. Executive Order 9066 took effect on March 30, 1942. The order had all native-born Americans and long-time legal residents of Japanese ancestry living in California to surrender themselves for detention. Japanese Americans were held to the end of the war in 1945.