page_title: List of concentration and internment camps
section_title: Japanese-, German-, Italian-Americans and Native Alaskans during World War II
hierarchical_section_title: List of concentration and internment camps / United States of America / Japanese-, German-, Italian-Americans and Native Alaskans during World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a map depicting the known internment sites wherein German Americans were interned during World War II. source: http://www.foitimes.com/internment/small.html
context_page_description: This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it was occupied by a foreign power.
  Certain types of camps are excluded from this list, particularly refugee camps operated or endorsed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Additionally, prisoner-of-war camps that do not also intern non-combatants or civilians are treated under a separate category.
context_section_description: In reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on 19 February 1942, which allowed military commanders to designate areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from Western coastal regions to concentration camps in Arkansas, California, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho; German and Italian citizens, permanent residents, and American citizens of those respective ancestries (and American citizen family members) were removed from (among other places) the West and East Coast and relocated or interned, and roughly one-third of the US was declared an exclusionary zone.
  The Fort Lincoln, North Dakota internment camp opened in April 1941 and closed in 1945. It had a peak population of 650. Today (2014) it houses the United Tribes Technical College. Some CCC barracks buildings and two brick army baracks were fenced and used to house the internees. The first internees were Italian and German seamen. 800 Italians arrived, but they were soon sent to Fort Missoula in Montana. The first Japanese American Issei arrived in 1942, but they were also transferred to other camps. Until February 1945, The Germans were the only internees left at the camp, and then, 650 more Japanese Americans were brought in, these 600 Japanese Americans had previously renounced their U.S. citizenship and now, they were waiting to be sent back to Japan. The brick buildings remain but others are gone. There is a newspaper article from The Bismarck Tribune, 2 March 1946 which stated that 200 Japanese were still being held at Fort Lincoln.
  Oklahoma housed German and Italian POW's at Fort Reno, located near El Reno, and Camp Gruber, near Braggs, Oklahoma.
  Almost 120,000 Japanese Americans and resident Japanese aliens would eventually be removed from their homes and relocated.
  About 2,200 Japanese living in South America (mostly in Peru) were transported to the United States and placed in internment camps.
  Approximately 5,000 Germans living in several Latin American republics were also removed and transported to the United States and placed in internment camps. In addition, at least 10,905 German Americans were held in more than 50 internment sites throughout the United States and Hawaii.
  Alaska Natives living on the Aleutian Islands were also interned during the war; Funter Bay was one such camp.
caption: The locations of internment camps for German-Americans during World War II
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