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NPR Radio Diaries: U.S. Using Latin Americans as “Bartering Chips” during WWII

NPR Radio Diaries: U.S. Using Latin Americans as “Bartering Chips” during WWII

by GAIC_Admin | Jul 6, 2025 | Audio, Breaking News, Ecuador, Multimedia, Video & Radio Interviews

On June 29th, 2025, NPR aired a Radio Diaries story called “Inside a U.S. plan to use immigrants in Latin America as WWII bartering chips.” Interviewees included Karin Harten Schramm, whose family were brought to the U.S. from Ecuador. Expecting to be...
the Harten Family Story

the Harten Family Story

by GAIC_Admin | May 4, 2019 | Ecuador, Latin American Resident Internees

By Gertrud Harten – 1939 to 1948, and Karin Harten Schramm – 2019 My parents were both from Hamburg, Germany. My father, Wolfgang Harten, born in 1907, finished his apprenticeship in an import/export company in 1927. At that time Germany was suffering under the...

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