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Shattered lives, shattered dreams : [the untold true story of America's enemy aliens in World War II]
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During World War II, the United States government ordered the arrest and internment of thousands of German aliens including women and children and the kidnapping and detainment of 4,000 German, Ita...
During World War II, the United States government ordered the arrest and internment of thousands of German aliens including women and children and the kidnapping and detainment of 4,000 German, Italian, and Japanese citizens from Latin America. Based on U.S. State Department memos, FBI documents, and eyewitness accounts, Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams is the untold true story of a secret prisoner exchange program between the United States and the Axis powers, and a secret cover up that reached into the highest levels of the United States government.--from back cover
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- Creator
- by Russell W. Estlack
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- English
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- St. George, Utah : R. W. Estlack, [2009]
- ©2009
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- 163 pages ; 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocn499140011
- Subtitle from cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Arrest and detention -- Max Ebel, a German immigrant's story -- The Latin American connection -- The Gurcke family story -- Transit camps -- The Schmitz family story -- Camp Seagoville, Texas -- Peruvians remember U.S. concentration camps -- Camp Crystal City, Texas -- My internment by the U.S. government -- Hawaii -- Internment of a German American family in Hawaii -- Aftermath -- The Eiserloh family story
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
- Noncitizens -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.