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There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers which are now most commonly known as internment camps or incarceration centers. Detention camps housed Nikkei considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government.

Civilian Assembly Centers

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Relocation Centers

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Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943
Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp Butte
Harvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942
Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's Village
Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children

Justice Department detention camps

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These camps often held German-American and Italian-American detainees in addition to Japanese Americans:[1]

Citizen Isolation Centers

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The Citizen Isolation Centers were for those considered to be problem inmates.[1]

Federal Bureau of Prisons

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Detainees convicted of crimes, usually draft resistance, were sent to these sites, mostly federal prisons:[1]

U.S. Army facilities

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These camps often held German and Italian detainees in addition to Japanese Americans:[1]

Immigration and Naturalization Service facilities

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These immigration detention stations held the roughly 5,500 men arrested immediately after Pearl Harbor, in addition to several thousand German and Italian detainees, and served as processing centers from which the men were transferred to DOJ or Army camps:[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Japanese American Internment Camps". Retrieved October 2, 2007.
  2. ^ "Alien Enemy Detention Facility, Crystal City, Texas". The Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Archived from the original on December 27, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  3. ^ Burton, J.; Farrell, M.; Lord, F.; Lord, R. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, "Temporary Detention Stations Archived November 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine" (National Park Service, 2000). Retrieved August 13, 2014.
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