How many Italians and Germans were interned?
According to one postwar document, the Immigration & Naturalization Service took custody of 3,278 Italians and 10,905 Germans. These numbers included, however, those who were released or paroled, voluntary internees (family members) and those deported to the United States from 15 Latin American countries. Most detainees were either quickly released or paroled, and the length of actual internment varied greatly, making any general statement about the numbers interned useless. This is why historians generally refer to the figures (above) provided by the INS at the end of the war.
