Crystal City Internment Camp 1945
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Uploaded by CrystalCity1945 on Dec 23, 2006
A video made from a public domain film produced by the Immigration and Naturalizaton Service in 1945 of the family internment camp at Crystal City, Texas. This camps was used for the incarceration of German Americans, German Latin Americans, Italian Americans and Italian Latin Americans, as well as Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans.
This is an abbreviated version of the original 22 minute video.
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This is crazy my family has been in Crystal forever I am part of The Avila Family and never knew about this wow!
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Agree this is a propaganda film.
The holocaust happened to people like us.google fema death camps in america
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propaganda!
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@HewieOfHG those amps were similar till the end of the war when typhuis and food shortages too kover, germans had little contact with camp inmates who were forced labor for the war effort of gertmnay, inside copntrol was left up to capos usually criminals,psychopathic and sadistist. enjoyed playing on the other inmates.allied bombibng led to the food shortages and the degradation of the camps in general and thats why typhus took over,.and all te pics seen are typhus victims
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@jmfflint2 Well, at least we treated them better then they treated us.
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SB 1070 - is a repeat of the tyrannical Arizona government!
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I personally know a person of German heritage that was born in the Crystal City camp. She remembers her mother commenting on fond memories of their detention period there. These were Germans that were sent there from Costa Rica. I went out of my way to visit Crystal City so that I could send the lady born there, pictures of her birthplace. My mother's fiance also spent time in a detention center in Texas. I have read his letters from the camp and later....no ill feelings.
tonabill 1 year ago
@tonabill Thanks for your feedback!
CrystalCity1945 1 year ago
I seen this film at school like last week.
actress8145 1 year ago
@actress8145 Thanks for your note!
CrystalCity1945 1 year ago
was this how it rely was or is this one of those propaganda films the nazi's used to lore the Jew's to camps like this out in Poland
HewieOfHG 1 year ago
This camp was "nice"; but you are correct, it resembles "Theresienstadt" in the book and move called "War and Remembrance."
But we were treated with dignity!
CrystalCity1945 1 year ago