UID:
kobvindex_DGP1638988234
Format:
Lit.Hinw.
ISSN:
0042-5702
Content:
After the United States entered World War II, several thousand suspect German aliens were arrested. The arrests usually occurred during the middle of the night based on such trivial ground as a carelessly made remark or denunciations by neighbors or business rivals. Condemned as "enemy aliens", these immigrants were placed together with their families in one of the two dozen internment camps specially set up by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. There they remained until the end of the war or even longer. In 1944/45 they were given the choice to transfer to Sweden on board the neutral ocean liners "Gripsholm" and "Drottningholm". Others, classified as risks to the national security, were rapatriated against their will even after 1948. Those immigrants still residing in the United States, returned to their pre-war existence, but were embittered by the treatment they had suffered and frustrated by history's indifference to their experience. (Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte / FUB)
In:
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, [Berlin] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 1953, 44(1996), 4, Seite 581-603, 0042-5702
Language:
German
Author information:
Krammer, Arnold 1941-
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