World War II Enemy Aliens Program

Oct 13, 2009

National Archives & Records Admin.

Archivist Lynn Goodsell talked about various aspects of the World War II "enemy alien control" programs and related records available at the National Archives. Besides the well known internment camps in California and Nevada for people of Japanese ancestry, she noted that camps were also set up for Germans and Italians throughout the United .. Read More
Archivist Lynn Goodsell talked about various aspects of the World War II "enemy alien control" programs and related records available at the National Archives. Besides the well known internment camps in California and Nevada for people of Japanese ancestry, she noted that camps were also set up for Germans and Italians throughout the United States and Latin America. Ms. Goodsell used PowerPoint to illustrate her presentation. She also responded to questions from members of the audience. "World War II Enemy Aliens Program" was a "Know Your Records Program" held in the National Archives Research Center at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, October 13, 2009.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:08 Unidentified Speaker BESIDES THE INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS IN AMERICA DURING WORLD WAR II, SMALLER CAMPS...
00:00:33 Unidentified Speaker GOOD MORNING. BEFORE I BEGIN, I NEED TO GIVE A COUPLE OF DISCLAIMERS. KIND OF THAT SMALL PRINT AT...
00:46:06 Unidentified Speaker CHANGED SINCE THEN OR STILL IN PLACE WITH REGARD TO CIRCUMSTANCES REPEATED ITSELF, LOSS STILL EXIST...
00:46:15 Unidentified Speaker IF I'M UNDERSTANDING, YOU'RE ASKING ESSENTIALLY IF MAYBE PARTS OF THE ALIEN AND SEDATION ACTS ABOUT...
00:46:24 Unidentified Speaker 1780.
00:46:25 Unidentified Speaker YES.
00:46:27 Unidentified Speaker IS THAT ALL STILL IN PLACE OR WAS THAT RESOLVED?
00:46:33 Unidentified Speaker I KNOW THEY BECAME CODIFIED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY AND I COULDN'T TELL YOU IF THEY ARE...
00:46:44 Unidentified Speaker RECEIVE COMPENSATION. FOR INSTANCE, DID YOUR GRANDFATHER OR OTHER NATIONALITIES RECEIVE COMPENSATION....
00:46:51 Unidentified Speaker I THOUGHT THAT QUESTION WOULD COME UP. THE JAPANESE AMERICANS THAT WERE INTERNED UNDER THE WAR RELOCATION...
00:47:31 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. JUST KEEP THOSE NUMBERS UP THERE. OKAY. YOU'VE GOT GERMANS, JAPANESE AND
00:47:41 Unidentified Speaker YES.
00:47:47 Unidentified Speaker ARRESTED 7,000 GERMANS, 5,000 JAPANESE, ITALIANS 3,000. OKAY. AND YOU ALSO MENTIONED THERE WERE 120,000...
00:48:02 Unidentified Speaker YES.
00:48:03 Unidentified Speaker SO IF THEY WERE NOT INCLUDED AS ARRESTED WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR 5,000 MINUS 120. THAT LEAVES 115,000 JAPANESE...
00:48:18 Unidentified Speaker CORRECT. AND THIS IS WHERE THE NUMBERS GAME DOES GET STICKY. THOSE ON THE WEST COAST FACED MASS RELOCATION....
00:49:03 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS IT'S NOT REALLY COMPENSATION, BUT AT THE END OF THE WAR WHEN THOSE PEOPLE WERE RELEASED FROM...
00:49:19 Unidentified Speaker NO, I DON'T KNOW.
00:49:22 Unidentified Speaker A BIG GROUP OF PEOPLE AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF INTERNMENT, WHAT DO YOU DO, WALK OUT THE GATE? WHERE...
00:49:29 Unidentified Speaker ACTUALLY, I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT. I KNOW BY 1952, THE IMMIGRATION REFUGEE LAWS WERE CHANGED,...
00:50:15 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU KNOW THAT THE MAJORITY OF THOSE JAPANESE WHO WERE INTERNED, THE 120,000, THE MAJORITY WERE...
00:50:25 Unidentified Speaker CORRECT.
00:50:29 Unidentified Speaker ALL RIGHT. YES? I BELIEVE THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE FOR QUESTIONS.

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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