"VANISHED: Civilian Internees in the US, 1941-48" - Michael Luick-Thrams' presentation
Channel: TRACESpuren
Date: 2020-08-21

During World War II, the US government "relocated" some 142,000 Americans of Japanese descent, and also interned about 15,000 German Americans, as well as a few thousand Italians.

At the same time, FDR's "Special War Problems Division" (created the day before Germany invaded Poland) led to a secret "Enemy Exchange Program" whereby the US kidnapped thousands of German- and Japanese-Latin Americans, forcibly brought them to camps in Texas and elsewhere, then traded hundreds of them with Berlin and Tokyo for Axis-held US nationals.

On the day that Dr. Michael Luick-Thrams gave this introductory presentation in Crystal City, Texas, in the early 2000s, Eberhard Fuhr then spoke about having being interned in Camp Crystal City: https://youtu.be/paO4XaYVL_A  

To learn more about this hidden history, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRAwQLi6vqY and http://www.usgerrelations.traces.org/internees.html


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