Internment Camps During Ww2. However, less is known about the thousands of “ethnic germans” who were also detained, as well as smaller numbers of italians and italian americans. What groups of people were sent to internment camps during ww1 and ww2?

The camp’s population peaked at 3,374 on december 29, 1944, more than two thirds of which were of. The internment of japanese americans in the united states during world war ii was the forced removal and incarceration of around 120,000 persons of japanese ancestry in concentration camps in the country's western heartland, the majority of whom lived on the pacific coast. He was released from internment in 1943.