Spotlight North Dakota – Germans, Japanese & Italians: Unwelcome in North Dakota

In 1941, by presidential proclamation, any “enemy alien” in the U.S. could be detained without any recourse. Ft. Lincoln, one mile south of Bismarck, was one of the many internment camps set up to detain persons of German, Japanese, and Italian descent during World War II. Many of those detained were U.S. citizens. Marilyn Snyder and Scott Schaffnit present this story.

Watch Spotlight North Dakota – Germans, Japanese & Italians: Unwelcome in North Dakota by Marilyn Snyder & Scott Schaffnit on Video On Demand. (To view this show online, you will need Windows Media Player.)

The Spotlight North Dakota public programs of the North Dakota State Historical Society have been offered through the Sensational Sunday Series, at the North Dakota Heritage Center, featuring music, storytelling, historic preservation programs, and the North Dakota Humanities Council’s Larry Remele Memorial Fellowship lecture series.

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