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From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered more than 10,000 civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during World War II, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "quiet passage." During the course of the war, hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City, including their American-born children, were exchanged for other more important Americans -- diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries -- behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. Focusing her story on two American-born teenage girls who were interned, author Jan Jarboe Russell uncovers the details of their years spent in the camp; the struggles of their fathers; their families; subsequent journeys to war-devastated Germany and Japan; and their years-long attempt to survive and return to the United States, transformed from incarcerated enemies to American loyalists. Their stories of day-to-day life at the camp, from the ten-foot high security fence to the armed guards, daily roll call, and censored mail, have never been told. Combining big-picture World War II history with a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, "The Train to Crystal City" reveals the war-time hysteria against the Japanese and Germans in America, the secrets of FDR's tactics to rescue high-profile POWs in Germany and Japan, and how the definition of American citizenship changed under the pressure of war.
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World War, 1939-1945, Prisoners and prisons, Concentration camps, German Americans, Evacuation and relocation, 1941-1948, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Evacuation and relocation, 1942, Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.), Evacuation of civilians, Forced repatriation, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Children, Biography, History, Large type booksPlaces
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The train to Crystal City: FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
2015
in English
- Large print edition.
1410477614 9781410477613
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Originally published: New York : Scribner, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-651).
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