by GAIC_Admin | Jun 3, 2017 | Documents, Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, Internment Camp Documents, Resources
Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, the largest WW II internment camp for men in the U.S., housed more than 4000 civilians, mostly of German and Japanese ethnicity, during the war, closing its doors in 1946. This 30 June 1945 census of German Americans and Latin...
by GAIC_Admin | May 28, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Seagoville - Texas
During WWII, internment camps in the U.S. were visited periodically by neutral representatives, usually from the International Red Cross, or from Switzerland, acting for German interests, or Spain, overseeing Japanese interests. These representatives were...
by GAIC_Admin | May 25, 2017 | Documents, Ft. Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
On October 24-25, 1945, Ft. Lincoln was inspected by Dr. Rudolph Fischer, Swiss Legation representative, and Van Arsdale Turner, Department of State. Activated in 1942 as an internment camp for civilians of Japanese ethnicity, it later became exclusively a camp for...
by GAIC_Admin | May 25, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, Seagoville - Texas
In 1942, the facilities of Seagoville, formerly a prison, were converted into an internment facility to hold German, Japanese and Italian U.S. resident and Latin American internees. Although it was intended to serve primarily as a facility for families in which both...
by GAIC_Admin | May 22, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents
During the early months of World War II, many internees were sent to the prison in Stringtown, Oklahoma, operated by the U.S. Army. The prison started accepting internees on March 30, 1942. Located four miles north of Stringtown, the camp was previously a sub-prison,...
by GAIC_Admin | May 18, 2017 | Documents, Internment Camp Documents, U.S. Department of State
Three Stringtown, Oklahoma, Alien Internment Camp inspection reports are now online. The first, written by Max Habicht, representing the Swiss Legation in charge of German interests, and Whitney Young, Department of State, described a visit from 25-28 June 1942,...
