During WWII the U.S. Government interned 15,000 German-American civilians, including citizens and 4,058 Latin-American Germans brought here and later exchanged for Nazi-held Americans. Crystal City, Texas was the location of one of these internment camps.

YouTube Video: Crystal City Internment Camp 1945

Perhaps the least known chapter of American WWII history, its legacy has implications for today. VANISHED illustrates this unknown story through narrative texts and artifacts.
 

 

Vanished: German-American Civilian Internment, 1941-1948 will be on display from

January 12th to January 31, 2009

at

Trinity University's Coates Library

on the 3rd (main) floor.

   
 

This exhibit was created by the TRACES Museum in St. Paul, MN.   TRACES is a non-profit educational organization created to gather, preserve and present stories of people from the Midwest and Germany or Austria who encountered each other during World War II.  For more information, visit their website at http://www.traces.org/index.htm.