WEBSITES OF INTEREST:  American and Latin American Civilian Internment in World War II


Government and Organization Websites


Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law re: the Treatment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent, European Americans, and Jewish Refugees During World War II, March 19, 2009

Archivist discusses Alien Enemy Control Program; National Archives and Records Administration, C-Span Video Library 

Enemy alien program overview National Archives and Records Administration website

"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   

"Medical Care for Interned Enemy Aliens: A Role for the US Public Health Service in World War II" American Journal of Public Health, by Louis Fiset, DDS, BA

German language documentary available online.  Zum Nazi verdammt. Das Schicksal deutschstämmiger US-Familien im 2. Weltkrieg, die in amerikanischen Lagern interniert wurden. Dokumentation directed by Michaela Kirst for Tangram Films, Deutschland, Bayr. Rundfunk, 2007, 52 Min.  Many interviews conducted in English with voiceovers.  Unfortunately, the online version ends 10 minutes early.  Documentary aired on German and French network television.  http://tangramfilm.de/filme/film/117

Texas Historical Commission: Texas in World War II

University of Texas, San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures. (Type Crystal City or Camp Kenedy or Seagoville into search box to see historic photographs of these camps.) 

University of Texas, San Antonio oral history interviews with personnel of the Crystal City, Texas Internment Camp—Superintendent of Schools, R. C. TateGeorge Ferris, guardMargaret N. Williams, secretaryMona Bizzell Baskin, office employee

Report to the Congress of the United States: A Review of the Restrictions on Persons of Italian Ancestry During World War II; Department of Justice, November, 2001.

TRACES.org

German World Alliance

Una Storia Segreta —Italian American website 

Campaign for Justice —Japanese Latin American website

"Jewish Internees in the American South, 1942-1945," by Harvey Strum; American Jewish Archives Journal.

Interviews with administrators of both Alien Enemy Control Program and War Relocation Authority Camps — California State University, Fullerton


Videos and Radio Interviews


A government propaganda film about Crystal City, TX internment camp, 1945.

Interview of John Christgau by Arndt Peltner, Radio Goethe (English)

Book excerpts  by John Christgau, Ursula Potter, and Heidi Donald, read by the authors

Talk in Crystal City, Texas by Eberhart Fuhr, former internee

Lost Voices of Crystal City.  BBC Radio 4. 

Dedication of Crystal City interpretive panels (2011)


Author Websites

Author and historian Jay Feldman's website

Author and German internment researcher Stephen Fox’s website; his blog

Former internee and author Heidi Gurcke Donald's website

Author and German internment researcher Major Arthur D. Jacobs’ website

Author and historian Priscilla Wegars' website—She has a Table of Justice Department and U.S. Army Internment Camps and Detention Stations in the U.S. during World War II


Miscellaneous Websites


"Nottebohm's Nightmare: Have We Exorcised the Ghosts of WWII Detention Programs or Do They Still Haunt Guantanamo?"  Cindy G. Buys, Southern Illinois School of Law. Her article can be downloaded there in PDF format

Women of World War II Hawaii, Dorothea Buckingham's website, has a number of stories about women during WWII, including internees of German ethnicity.

"Fancy Skullduggery"; Economic Warfare, Enemy Civilians, and  the Lessons of World War II — a review of Max Friedman's Nazis and Good Neighbors by Regina U. Gramer

"The U.S. Internment of Families from Latin America in World War II" by Max Paul Friedman, author of Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. (PDF)

Political posters and cartoons were used by the US government to convey its message about the enemy. More political cartoons by the famous children’s author, Dr. Seuss.