Crystal City Internment Camp
Overview
Crystal City, Texas
Crystal City is a city in and the county seat of Zavala County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,190 at the 2000 census. The mascot of Crystal City High School is the Javelina....
, the town where it was located. Many Japanese, German, and Italian Americans, as well as some Hispanics were imprisoned there for the duration of the war. Among the internees were many Japanese Peruvians rounded up in 1942 by the Peruvian government and sent to the U.S. for internment. (Even so, Peru did not declare an actual "state of belligerency" with Japan [and Germany] until 1945.)
