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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp during World War II (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)
The Train to Crystal City FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp during World War II - Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series Author:Jan Jarboe Russell From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children to a family internment camp in Texas. Crystal City was the center of a government program called "quiet passage," under which hundreds were exchanged for more important Americans held behind enemy lines. Jan Jarboe Russell detai... more »ls a little-known story of how the definition of American citizenship changed under the pressure of war.« less