“Return to Sender: U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II.” National Archives, Prologue Magazine, Spring 2001, Vol. 33, No. 1 by Louis Fiset, DDS, BA
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Enemy alien program overview National Archives and Records Administration website
John Christgau was one of the first authors to research the Alien Enemy Program of WW II. His book, Enemies, was originally published in 1985.
In 2002-2003, Ursula Vogt Potter compiled THE MISPLACED AMERICAN, a collection of memoirs, originally both oral and written, from members of the Vogt family about what happened to them during World War II.
Heidi Gurcke Donald, a former internee from Costa Rica, reads an excerpt about her family’s experiences from her memoir, “We Were Not the Enemy.”
“Untrue and Unjust Accusations”1 As told by John Heitmann, Ph.D — Son History and past memories, especially recent past memories, were rarely topics of family conversation when I was growing up during the 1950s and 1960s. World War II, in particular, was off limits for discussion, and might as well have taken place in the […]
The Neupert Family Story My father and mother, George Neupert and Emma Hoechner Neupert, were both born in Germany. My father and his sister emigrated to the United States in 1928, and my dad brought my mother over the following year. My parents were married in June, 1931, and I was born on October 10, […]
Karen Ebel is a non-practicing attorney in New Hampshire and the daughter of former German American internee, Max Ebel.
The Reseneder Family Internment Story My mother, Charlotte Reseneder Dimmling, her sister, Othilia “Tilly” Reseneder Busse and my grandparents were interned in Crystal City from 1942 until December 1945, seven months after the war in Europe ended. How they got there and why they were there is truly an amazing, but yet sad, story. Both […]
On the 8th of November, 2002, my brother (Egon Scheibe Jr.) and I (Erika Scheibe Seus) went on a journey to Crystal City, Texas. This was a journey we needed to make. Our parents, Grete Scheibe, now 89, and our deceased father Egon Sr. were internees at a camp there during World War II. After […]