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Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943 Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp Butte Harvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942 Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's Village Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and Japanese descent. [1] Several reliable sources indicate that there were only 25 or 26 camps holding exclusively prisoners from foreign countries, nearly all from Germany. [2] [3] [4]
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Australia; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France
The Minidoka War Relocation Center operated from 1942 to 1945 as one of ten camps at which Japanese Americans, both citizens and resident "aliens", were interned during World War II. Under provisions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, all persons of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the West Coast of the United States.
Fort McCoy is a United States Army Reserve installation on 60,000 acres (24,000 ha) between Sparta and Tomah, Wisconsin, in Monroe County. In 1909, there were two separate camps named Camp Emory Upton and Camp Robinson; in 1926, these camps were joined together to form Camp McCoy. [1]
World War II internment camps in the United States (2 C, 12 P) Pages in category "World War II internment camps" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.