Internment Camps In The 1920s

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Internment camps in the 1920s were used as prison for “enemy aliens” Enemy aliens were people who were thought to be entering from foreign grounds such as Germany, Ukraine and etc. In these camps, were 5000 Ukrainians and 2000 were of German descent. Men were divided by class and ethnicity as First class prisoners were primarily German officers and Second class officers were enemy alien labourers from Austria-Hungary. In the war, only men were allowed to fight but in these camps, some women and children got very little choice and chose to accompany their male relatives into camps. It was expected that when the war ended in 1918, men and women were supposed to be released from the camps but that was not the case. Although some were released,