by GAIC_Admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Government & Organizations
Commemorating Crystal City: The Transnational Dimension of German American Internment Experiences was published on-line in the American Studies Journal, number 59, (2015). Author and historian Ingrid Gessner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 26, 2016 | Documents, Letters, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
Report on traveling conditions of group of German citizens from Costa Rica, 22 Feb 1943: from folder 383.7, Camp Crystal City, NARA (exact location is being investigated) — Mention is made of “Negro members of the ship’s personnel” on page 2; that description was not...
by GAIC_Admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Documents, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, adopts U.S. Department of Justice/State Department resolutions to allow U.S. to provide detention accommodations and shipping expenses for Latin Axis nationals to the U.S., a process...
by GAIC_Admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Crystal City - Texas, Internee Personal Documents, Letters, U.S. Department of Justice
This 1947 letter to an internee held at Crystal City, TX, offers a thirty day parole from the Camp to prepare to depart the United States.
by GAIC_Admin | Feb 23, 2016 | Documents, U.S. Department of Justice
Department of Justice, 1942 Regulations for Enemy Aliens A booklet with cover letter, lists “conduct to be observed by alien enemies.” (courtesy of an internee family)
by GAIC_Admin | Feb 15, 2016 | U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special War Problems Division - Latin America
30 Jan 1946 Memorandum in “Statistics,” Box 70, Special War Problems Division, RG 59, NA — numbers/ethnicities of Latin Americans brought to the U.S. and countries from which they came
