Talk:Fort Lincoln Internment Camp

info and source to add

From the wikipedia article List of concentration and internment camps is the following info, too much for that article. Includes one inaccurate statement about peak population (i.e. "peak population of 650" vs. "800 Italians" later, and vs. higher number in this article currently). But it has other info not included (the CCC barracks buildings and brick army barracks; about the Germans being only ones there during a period) and it refers to a Bismarck Tribune article which could be found and used as a source.

The passage from other Wikipedia article:

Fort Lincoln, North Dakota internment camp opened in April 1941 and closed in 1945. It had a peak population of 650. Today (2014) it houses the United Tribes Technical College. Some CCC barracks buildings and two brick army baracks were fenced and used to house the internees. The first ones were Italian and German seamen. 800 Italians arrived, but soon were sent to Fort Missoula in Montana. The first Japanese American Issei arrived in 1942, but were also transferred to other camps. The Germans were left as the only internees there until February 1945, but then 650 more Japanese Americans were brought in, these being ones who had renounced their U.S. citizenship and were waiting to be sent back to Japan. The brick buildings remain but others are gone. There is a newspaper article from The Bismarck Tribune, March 2, 1946 that 200 Japanese were still being held at Fort Lincoln.

I imagine this is largely accurate, and that it was added to other article by someone who knew the info. Hope this is useful. --doncram 16:35, 23 September 2015 (UTC)