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Book SynopsisThey were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about were in fact ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The Alien Enemy Control Program in America was born with the United States's declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy and lasted until 1948. In all, 31,275 ""enemy aliens"" were imprisoned.
Trade Review“Using primary sources such as National Archives documents, FBI reports, and oral-history interviews with former prisoners, the author, in very moving and human terms, recounts the stories of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds. . . . An excellent account.”—
Library Journal“Christgau has taken a fresh, comprehensive look at our government’s flawed alien internment program of World War II. He makes the story poignant by focusing on the lives of several people at Ft. Lincoln, a prison camp near Bismarck, North Dakota.”—
San Francisco ExaminerTable of ContentsPrefaceSources and AcknowledgmentsKurt: German Seamen and the Beginning of the Internment Program
Die Wanderkameraden: Confinement by Hearsay and Nazi-Jew Conflict in CampThe Railroaders: An Internee Work Program and an EscapeMax and Moritz: German Loyalists and a Tunnel to FreedomHiro: Japanese-American Relocation and the End of InternmentAfterwordBibliography
