by GAIC_Admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Breaking News, Miscellaneous Links
In two recent articles, the Baltimore Sun described the role Fort Meade, Maryland played as an internment facility during WW II, as well as the switch over to housing prisoners of war in 1943.
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Breaking News, Miscellaneous Links
Werner Ulrich, a former Crystal City, Texas internee, recently started a Facebook page where former internees and interested viewers can discuss internment and share photographs and memories. Check it out!
by GAIC_Admin | Apr 2, 2016 | Government & Organizations, Resources, Websites
An on-line collection of letters concerning enemy aliens of German ethnicity, by internees themselves, as well as official reports on individuals and internment facilities.
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 Heidi | Feb 2, 2016 | Government & Organizations, Websites
California State University, Fullerton has posted some oral history interviews of administrators of WWII camps holding civilians. Amy N. Stannard was the first woman to oversee an internment facility. She worked at Seagoville, Texas, where the first civilian prisoners...
by Heidi | Jan 31, 2016 | Government & Organizations, Seamen, Websites
“German Sailors on the High Desert: A WW II Detention Camp at Fort Stanton” was written by Tomas Jaehn, an historian who works as archivist and librarian at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Published for El Palacio, the...
