family was placed in january of 44 to crystal city, texas, in a family camp. crystal city facility shows how detainees of the world war ii lived, worked and play ed under the traditional american standards of decent and humane treatment. it was surrounded by barbed wire. we had guards on horses going around all the time. there were japanese americans, german americans and italian americans. there were several hundreds italians and italian americans who were interned during the war. some 600,000 were not citizens and cast as enemy aliens. could not own certain things and could not own fire arms and short wave radio reception. they couldn t own cameras and they could not travel beyond a 50-mile radius.
of 44 to crystal city, texas, in a family camp. crystal city facility shows how detainees of the world war ii lived, worked and play ed under the traditional american standards of decent and humane treatment. it was surrounded by barbed wire. we had guards on horses going around all the time. there were japanese americans, german americans and italian americans. there were several hundreds italians and italian americans who were interned during the war. some 600,000 were not citizens and cast as enemy aliens. could not own certain things and could not own fire arms and short wave radio reception. they couldn t own cameras and they could not travel beyond a 50-mile radius.