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Marilyn Miller, Author, Discusses "Port of No Return," book about Camp Algiers, LA
Louisiana State University Press hosted a May 2021 discussion of Port of No Return; Enemy Alien Internment in World War II […]
Read More ›"History in Five: FDR's Secret Enemy Exchange Program" video
Simon and Schuster Books posted this video in 2015, with Jan Jarboe Russell, author of The Train to Crystal City, briefly […]
Read More ›WWII exchange voyages remembered
Lars Hemingstam, author and founder of a website about the ships of the Swedish American Line, discusses the exchange voyages […]
Read More ›Micro-documentaries about internment
As part of a year-long project (2018-19) highlighting the internment and expatriation of German American and Latin Americans during WWII, […]
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Algiers, Louisiana Alien Detention Station featured in documentary
Published May 24, 2017, “Camp of the Innocents” is a documentary film about the Camp Algiers Alien Detention Station in […]
Read More ›2002 Interview with John Schmitz, former internee
John Schmitz, was born in the Bronx, New York, on October 12, 1936 and interned, with his family, in the Crystal City, […]
Read More ›2016 Immigration law lecture features author of "The Train to Crystal City"
October 18, 2016—Author Jan Jarboe Russell, whose work “The Train to Crystal City” was selected as the 2016 Gulf Coast […]
Read More ›"Treatment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent, European Americans, and Jewish Refugees in WWII"-Hearing video
19 March 2009—Committee on the Judiciary – Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. Video provided by […]
Read More ›World War II Enemy Aliens Program
World War II Enemy Aliens Program (2009)—National Archives and Records Administration, C-Span Video Library Archivist Lynn Goodsell talks about various aspects […]
Read More ›Fort Stanton: a German Internment Camp
In 1941, German Merchant seamen from the scuttled luxury liner S.S. Columbus found themselves held in the U.S. America was […]
Read More ›Michael Luick-Thrams on WWII German American Internment
Historian, writer, and lecturer, Michael Luick-Thrams worked with TRACES, a non-profit educational organization created to gather, preserve and present stories […]
Read More ›Alien Enemy Detention Facility
A government propaganda film about Crystal City, TX internment camp, 1945.
Read More ›Zum Nazi verdammt
German language documentary available online. Zum Nazi verdammt. Das Schicksal deutschstämmiger US-Familien im 2. Weltkrieg, die in amerikanischen Lagern interniert wurden. Documentation […]
Read More ›Author John Christgau reads from "Enemies"
John Christgau was one of the first authors to research the Alien Enemy Program of WW II. His book, Enemies, was […]
Read More ›Ursula Vogt Potter reads from "The Misplaced American"
In 2002-2003, Ursula Vogt Potter compiled THE MISPLACED AMERICAN, a collection of memoirs, originally both oral and written, from members […]
Read More ›Heidi Donald reads from "We Were Not the Enemy"
Heidi Gurcke Donald, a former internee from Costa Rica, reads an excerpt about her family’s experiences from her memoir, […]
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Crystal City Internment Camp Interpretive Panels Dedicated
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 3:30 P.M., eight new interpretive panels about the Crystal City, TX Internment Camp and the […]
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Recent broadcast features John E. Schmitz, author of "Enemies Among Us"
“With Good Reason,” Virginia Humanities Radio, aired an hour-long program called “Legacies of World War II” on May 6, 2022. John […]
Read More ›WWII Internment Camp, 'Camp Algiers', Louisiana, held Jews, too
WWNO, a radio station in New Orleans, LA, featured the WWII history of Camp Algiers, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, […]
Read More ›Interview with Karen Ebel, President of the German American Internee Coalition
Karen Ebel, President of the German American Internee Coalition and daughter of a former internee, is interviewed by Arndt Peltner of […]
Read More ›Interview with John Christgau, Author of "Enemies"
John Christgau, the author of Enemies: World War II Alien Internment, is interviewed by Arndt Peltner of Radio Goethe, in […]
Read More ›Lost Voices of Crystal City
“Lost Voices of Crystal City” from BBC Radio Four by BBC Radio Four. Released: 2004.
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2007 Crystal City Reunion
THE SECOND NATIONAL REUNION OF GERMAN AMERICAN WORLD WAR II INTERNEE FAMILIES IN CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS November 6 — November 9, 2007 The […]
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