Ernst Kunwald, entering the Federal Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, as a prisoner of war in charge of two U.S. deputy marshals, in 1917
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detent
Ernst Kunwald
…accepted by the board at that time. On January 12, 1918 he was interned under the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned without trial as part of Austrian- and German-American internment at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was joined there by fellow conductor Karl Muck, who was arrested March 25, 1918. The evidence on which Kunwald was…
Locations of internment camps for German enemy aliens during World War II
Instructions regarding the registration of German alien enemies, dated January 15, 1918
Excerpted page of the German alien enemy registration for Charles Bischoff of Stillwater, Minnesota
Germans building barracks in an internment camp during World War I