Department of Justice internment camps

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The Department of Justice internment camps were U.S.-run detention facilities that held Japanese Americans and other “enemy aliens” during World War II under federal law enforcement and security authority.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II internment facility
internment camp system
appliesToJurisdiction enemy aliens in the United States
country United States
detained German nationals
Italian nationals
Japanese Americans classified as enemy aliens
Japanese nationals
Latin American Germans
Latin American Italians
Latin American Japanese
other Axis nationals
distinctFrom War Department prisoner-of-war camps
War Relocation Authority camps
endTime 1946
governedBy United States federal law enforcement authority
hasPart Bismarck Internment Camp
Crystal City Internment Camp
Fort Lincoln Internment Camp
Fort Missoula Internment Camp
Kenedy Internment Camp
Kooskia Internment Camp
Santa Fe Internment Camp
Seagoville Internment Camp
legalBasis Alien Enemies Act of 1798
Presidential proclamations 2525, 2526, and 2527
locatedIn United States
continental United States
notableCamp Crystal City Internment Camp
Santa Fe Internment Camp
numberOfInternees tens of thousands
operatedBy Immigration and Naturalization Service
United States Department of Justice
partOf World War II home front in the United States
purpose detention of enemy aliens during World War II
internal security
relatedTo German American internment
Italian American internment
Japanese American incarceration
Latin American Japanese internment
securityClassification high-security detention facilities
selectionProcess individual arrest and hearing procedures
startTime 1941
subjectOf United States government investigations of wartime internment
scholarship on Japanese American internment
supervisedBy Federal Bureau of Investigation
timePeriod World War II

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Japanese American internment includes Department of Justice internment camps
World War II atrocities includesEvent Internment of German Americans
linked to: Department of Justice internment camps
Fort Missoula significantEvent World War II internment operations
linked to: Department of Justice internment camps