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v. t. e. Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526, made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act.
The Rheinwiesenlager ( German: [ˈʁaɪnˌviːzn̩ˌlaːɡɐ], Rhine meadow camps) were a group of 19 concentration camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. Officially named Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures ( PWTE ), they held between one and ...
The exact population of German POWs in World War I is difficult to ascertain because they were housed in the same facilities used for German-American internment, but there were known to be 406 German POWs at Fort Douglas and 1,373 at Fort McPherson. [5] [6] The prisoners built furniture and worked on local roads.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
A girl detained in Arkansas walks to school in 1943. Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. "This order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast ...
The internment of Italian Americans refers to the US government 's internment of Italian nationals during World War II. As was customary after Italy and the US were at war, they were classified as "enemy aliens" and some were detained by the Department of Justice under the Alien and Sedition Act. But in practice, the US applied detention only ...
Justice Department detention camps. These camps often held German-American and Italian-American detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [ 1] Crystal City, Texas [ 2] Fort Lincoln Internment Camp. Fort Missoula, Montana. Fort Stanton, New Mexico. Kenedy, Texas. Kooskia, Idaho. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Max Paul Friedman, a professor at American University, made a statement about the mistreatment of the Jews and non-Jews in his book Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II: "Here was the creation of camps set up deliberately outside of the legal system in order to intern people suspected of subversion against whom there very ...