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Port of No Return - Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans (Paperback)
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Port of No Return - Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans (Paperback)
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While most people are aware of the World War II internment of
thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the United States,
few know that Germans, Austrians, and Italians were also
apprehended and held in internment camps under the terms of the
Enemy Alien Control Program. Port of No Return tells the story of
New Orleans's key role in this complex secret operation through the
lens of Camp Algiers, located just three miles from downtown New
Orleans. Deemed to be one of two principal ports through which
enemy aliens might enter the United States, New Orleans saw the
arrival of thousands of Latin American detainees during the war
years. Some were processed there by the Immigration and
Naturalization Service before traveling on to other detention
facilities, while others spent years imprisoned at Camp Algiers. In
1943, a contingent of Jewish refugees, some of them already
survivors of concentration camps in Europe, were transferred to
Camp Algiers in the wake of tensions at other internment sites that
housed both refugees and Nazis. The presence of this group earned
Camp Algiers the nickname ""Camp of the Innocents."" Despite the
sinister overtones of the ""enemy alien"" classification, most of
those detained were civilians who possessed no criminal record and
had escaped difficult economic or political situations in their
countries of origin by finding a refuge in Latin America. While the
deportees had been assured that their stay in the United States
would be short, such was rarely the case. Few of those deported to
the U.S. during World War II were able to return to their countries
of residence, either because their businesses and properties had
been confiscated or because their home governments rejected their
requests for reentry. Some were even repatriated to their countries
of origin, a possibility that horrified Jews and others who had
suffered under the Nazis. Port of No Return tells the varied,
fascinating stories of these internees and their lives in Camp
Algiers.
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