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This list represents a sample of American people imprisoned abroad by state and non-state actors, past and present. This list includes both citizens of the United States and legal permanent residents. It represents individuals imprisoned through various channels, including tried crimes and kidnappings.
A civilian internee is a civilian detained by a party to a war for security reasons. Internees are usually forced to reside in internment camps. Historical examples include Japanese American internment and internment of German Americans in the United States during World War II.
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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 ...
Television about the internment of Japanese Americans (6 P) Pages in category "Internment of Japanese Americans" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total.
When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” At 99 ...
With the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 that created the World ... More than 2,200 Japanese from countries including Peru and Bolivia were shipped to the U.S. and confined in ...
Of the 20,000 Japanese Americans who served in the Army during World War II, [173] "many Japanese American soldiers had gone to war to fight racism at home" [181] and they were "proving with their blood, their limbs, and their bodies that they were truly American". [182]