Were Italians held in internment camps during World War 2?

Answer 1

*Yes Italy did have concentration camps... here is a link to some but you will have to scroll down past camps in Germany. http://www.dpcamps.org/dpcamps/italy.html *Yes. One of the most famous ones was Riseria di San Saba.

Answer 2

Here is information offered by WikiAnswers community members: * Italians were sent to pow camps in occupied Poland after the Italian surrender in 1943. German forces moved into northern Italy and arrested Italian forces they deemed disloyal. They were sent to a camp in Poland that translates to King's Forge. I believe it is called Kenoshiten but my spelling has turned up no record so I have to assume it is incorrect. Italian soldiers, French resistanc and Polish civilians were housed here. My father was one of those Polish civilians. In February or March 1945, as the Red Army closed in, the Italians and French were taken away by the Germans and never seen again. My father believes they were executed. * Many Italians were taken prisoner in North Africa, and were sent to POW camps in the USA, as well as to Canada. Please note that these POWS were considered to be NO threat to escape, un-like the Germans, who tried on a regular basis to escape from their camps. * My father was taken as a Italian prisoner of war in Sept.43. He remained in two concentration camps between 1943-1945 (Dachau,Mauthausen) Luckily he survived both camps but with terrible demons following him for the rest of his life. The Germans had no compassion for soldiers who didn't want to fight their fight. * An entire Italian field army fighting in Yugoslavia was disarmed and sent to slave labor cambs which may be thought of as concentration camps, as many died, and the Italians enjoyed no favoritism as former allies. In the US, Italians and Germans were placed in detention camps selectively if they were thought to be Axis sympathizers, along with all Japanese, and US citizenship whether by birth or naturalization made no difference. Most Italian POWs were held in the US or Canada, but some were held in other countries. No Axis POW was successful in escaping back to his own country, but an Italian POW in Australia was nicknamed "the Fox" because of his repeated escapes, and the frustration of the Aussies to recapture him and find a cell that could hold him for a while.

Answer 3

Concentration camps in the US during WWII? There were internment camps (for Japanese) but not concentration camps. I do not know if there were internment camps holding Italians. All it took for a Japanese to be interned was to be Japanese. Germans and Italians were interned selectively; those investigated and thought to be dangerous, and they were sometimes detained with the Japanese. In all cases, a US citizenship made no difference which was a flagrant violation of the Bill of Rights, but considered at the time necessary. While the internments were technically illegal, some of the interned people may have been spared the violence of revenge-seeking US civilians. The US internment camps were far from comfortable, and there were some deaths, but they were not concentration camps in the Nazi sense of the term.

Answer 4

Hitler established the first concentration camp soon after he came to power in 1933. The system grew to include about 100 camps divided into two types: concentration camps for slave labor in nearby factories and death camps for the systematic extermination of "undesirables" including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others.

Nazis also established extermination camps. In the best known of these-Majdanek, Treblinka, and Oświęcim (Auschwitz), in Poland-more than six million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were killed in gas chambers. Among the most notorious Nazi camps liberated by U.S. and British troops in 1945 were Buchenwald, Dachau, and Belsen.

Answer 5

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