Appendix: Internment Reference Materials

The subject of the internment of Germans, Austrians, and Italians is relatively unknown. If you are interested in reference sources for the topic.This list has been compiled by the German American Internee Coalition at www.gaic.info.


Christgau, John. Enemies—WW II Alien Internment. Iowa State University Press, 1985, iUniverse.com, 2001. (reprint)

Contag, Kimberly and James Grabowska. Where Clouds Meet the Water. Inkwater Press, 2004.

DiStasi, Lawrence, ed. Una Storia Segreta: the Secret history of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II. Heyday Books, Berkeley, California, 2001.

Fox, Stephen, UnCivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege during World War II. Universal Publishers, 2000. (revised and updated edition of The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans during World War II. Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1990.)

__. Fear Itself, Inside the FBI Roundup of German Americans during World War II. iUniverse, Inc., 2005. (revised and updated edition of America’s Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in WWII. Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2000.)

Holian, Timothy J. The German Americans and WWII: An Ethnic Experience. Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 1998.

Jacobs, Arthur D. The Prison Called Hohenasperg, An American Boy Betrayed by his Government during World War II. uPublish.com, 1999.

Krammer, Arnold. Undue Process, The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees. Rowman & Littlefield, New York, 1997.

Krauter, Anneliese Wiegand. From the Heart’s Closet--A Young Girl’s World War II Story. Schatzi Press McCordsville, IN 2005.

Luick-Thrams. Michael and staff, VANISHED: German American Internment, 1941-48, (TRACES manual, issued to accompany St. Paul exhibit) TRACES. org 2005.

Potter, Ursula Vogt. The Misplaced American. 1stbooks Library (now Authorhouse), 2003. (a family memoir)

Mangione, Jerre G. An Ethnic at Large; A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978. (visited internment camps and staff)

Rout, Jr., Leslie B. and John F. Bratzel. The Shadow War: German Espionage and United States Counterespionage in Latin America during World War II. (University Publications of America, Inc., Maryland, 1986), 28.)

Schmitz, John Eric. Democracy Under Stress: The Internment of German-Americans in World War II, Master’s thesis, North Carolina State University, 1993. (John Eric Schmitz is the son of former internee, John Schmitz.)

Schmitz, John Eric. Enemies Among Us: The Relocation and Repatriation of German, Italian and Japanese Americans During the Second World War, The American University, 2007, Ph.D. dissertation # 3273603, available through ProQuest, 300 North Zeeb Road, PO Box 1346, Ann Arbor Michigan, 48106-1346, or 1-800-521-0600 ext 7044 (order desk). (John Eric Schmitz is the son of former internee, John Schmitz.)

Tischauser, Leslie V. The Burden of Ethnicity: The German Question in Chicago, 1914-1941. Garland Publishing, New York, 1990. (out of print)

Tolzmann, Don H., ed. German-Americans in the World Wars. München: K.G. Saur.
The World War Two Experience: The Internment of German-Americans, vol. 4, 1995.

Wolter/Masters, Loyalty on Trial: One American’s Battle With the F.B.I., iUniverse 2004

The following websites were valid links on January 28, 2009.

www.enemyalienfiles.org/ The Enemy Alien Files: Hidden Stories of World War II

www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/enemy-aliens-overview.html National Archives and Records Administration website

www.johnchristgau.com/enemies/enemies.html Author and German internment researcher John Christgau’s website

www.traces.org TRACES.org website

www.fear-itself.com Author and German internment researcher Stephen Fox’s website

www.foitimes.com Author and German internment researcher Major Arthur D. Jacobs’ website

www.allout.co.uk/ram/crystalcity.ram BBC Radio 4’s audio link to Lost Voices of Crystal City, an award-winning
documentary on German American and Latin American World War II internment

www.campaignforjusticejla.org/history/index.html Campaign for Justice – Japanese Latin American Site

www.germanworldalliance.org German World Alliance

www.segreta.org/ Una Storia Segreta -- Italian American website

www.teachers-resources.ca Teacher's Resources

www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1448029 American Journal of Public Health article on "Medical Care for Interned Enemy Aliens: A Role for the US Public Health Service in World War II" by Louis Fiset, DDS, BA

uitclib.utsa.edu University of Texas, San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures. (Type Crystal City or Camp Kenedy or Seagoville into search box to see historic photographs of these camps.)