![]() ![]() Soon after the US entered World War II, President Roosevelt ordered the FBI, under director J. Later she learned that many Germans and some Italians were also detained at Crystal City, and not just adult men but whole families. ![]() At first, she assumed it was one of the well-known detention camps for adult Japanese American men. Russell begins by recounting how she first learned about the Crystal City camp, from a Japanese American professor while she was an undergraduate at the University of Texas. The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (2015), a history book by American journalist Jan Jarboe Russell, tells the story of the “Crystal City Enemy Detention Facility” in Texas, where German, Japanese, and Italian-born men were interned with their families during World War II. ![]()
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