The only family internment camp during the war, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "quiet passage." Hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City were exchanged for other more ostensibly important Americans-diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, and missionaries-behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down" ( Star-Tribune, Minneapolis).ĭuring World War II, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas. The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: "A must-read.
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