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The train to Crystal CityThe train to Crystal City

The train to Crystal City

Jan Jarboe Russell

5.0(1)on Hardcover

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"Focusing on a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, a dramatic account exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II where hundreds of prisoners were exchanged for other Americans behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany."--

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OL19991333W

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Concentration campsGerman AmericansWorld War, 1939-1945Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)Evacuation of civiliansForced repatriationJapanese AmericansChildrenBiographyHistoryPrisoners of warHistorical20th CenturyEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945RefoulementWorld War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924MilitaryPrisoners and prisons

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