The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families&#8212;many US citizens&#8212;were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered more than 10,000 civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during World War II, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "quiet passage." During the course of the war, hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City, including their American-born children, were exchanged for other more important Americans&#8212;diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries&#8212;behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. Focusing her story on two American-born teenage girls who were interned, author Jan...

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