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Re: POW camps in the US
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POW's in WWI in the US were held but from the Pacific theater - Guam and Hawaii.
They were moved to Fort Douglas Utah and later Fort McPherson Ga. One
U-boat crew was also held at Fort McPherson but transports were not used for POW
removal. It was considered but the US involvement was only from April 1917 to
November 1918.
Interned civilians (German and Austro-Hungarian civilian males) were held
primarily at Fort Oglethorpe GA and Fort Douglas, Utah, in a program of
selective internment. However there were some held by INS at Angel Island and in
facilities in the east. Crews of interned merchant vessels were also held. This
program was administered by the Justice Department and the incarceration by the
US Army. The last interned civilians were released in April 1920, a hold over
from the Red Scare. Actually the last one released was in the early 1950's, held
at St. Elizabeth's hospital as mentally ill. There were at least 21 held at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital after 1920.
Was
the same done during WWI?
Harrison
C. Harrison S. Wick, M.L.S., M.A.
Archivist, Head of Public
& Technical Services
Black Film Center & Archives
Indiana
University
Bloomington, Indiana