What were the camps like the one in Colorado called that held Japanese Americans during World War 2 called?

Answer 1

Internment Camps. Whenever you go to war, historically, citizens of the enemy nation are "interned", to keep them from acts against the nation. Some Germans and Italians were also interned at the beginning of the war, but not so many. There were many times more persons of German or Italian birth or descent in the US than there were those of Japanese birth or descent, and they could not all be interned. Diplomats of the new enemy are also usually interned, but a way is usually found to send them home in exchange for our own diplomats, similarly interned in the enemy nation. Neutral countries also intern any members of combatant enemy forces straying into their territory. Thus, during the war Sweden and Switzerland both became home to aviators, of both sides, who had been able to nurse damaged airplanes into neutral territory, to avoid becoming POWs (and probably some who went there to get out of the war). Internment in a neutral nation was "for the duration" of the war. The Soviet Union (Russia) also interned American fliers whose planes were damaged bombing Japan, and who flew to relatively nearby Vladivostok, because Russia was neutral as far as Japan went, until the very last week of the war. The Russians kept the B-29 bombers these airmen flew into Russia though, took them apart and reverse engineered a copy, called the Tu 4, which became Russia's first nuclear bomber.