America's invisible gulag
Subtitle: a biography of German American internment & exclusion in World War II : memory and history
By: Stephen Fox.
Series: New German-American studies =; Neue deutsch-amerikanische Studien ;; vol. 23; New German-American studies ;; v. 23.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- German Americans -- Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American.; Oral history.; German-Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1948.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "One of the least-known aspects of World War II is the internment of German "enemy aliens" in the United States. This narrative goes beyond other internment studies in its use of internee interviews and access to justice and War Department personnel files.

Fox concludes that rather than offering a reasonable assessment of the aliens' danger to United States internal security, the Justice Department incarcerated them - and excluded several hundred United States citizens - because of their German backgrounds, alleged disloyal statements and associations, socioeconomic class, or their characters and personalities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-366) and index.