The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior : a history of Canadian Internment Camp R

Zimmermann, Ernest Robert, 1931-2008, author.

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For 18 months during World War II, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). "Camp R" held an unlikely assortment of German prisoners: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain feared might comprise Hitler's rumoured "fifth column" of alien enemies residing within the Commonwealth. For the first time and in riveting detail, the au...

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Internment Camp R (Red Rock, Ont.)

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World War, 1939-1945 Ontario Red Rock

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ISBN:

9780888646736
0888646739

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxxiii, 346 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index

Contents:

Preface / Ernst Robert Zimmermann
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Situating the Red Rock POW Experience / Michael S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, and Ernest Robert Zimmermann
I. From Welcomed Refugees to "Dangerous Enemy Aliens"
II. From Mass Internment in Britain to Deportation to Canada
III. Onward to the New World and Its Old Problems: Helping Britain in Canadian Circumstances
IV. Getting Ready: Acquisition and Administration of Camp R
V. Settling In and Sorting Out
VI. Camp Life at R under Standing Orders
VII. Issues in Camp Life: Stresses and Opportunities
VIII. A Canadian Conundrum: Deception, Anti-Semitism, Paterson Mission and Partial Solutions
IX. Other Aspects of Camp Life: Inspections, First Escapes, Religion, Mail
X. "The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior"
XI. Lighter and Darker Aspects of Camp LIfe
XII. "The End Is Nigh": The Closure of Camp R
XIII. Epilogue

LCCN:

2015490018

Control Number:

2217700

Other Authors:

Beaulieu, Michel S., editor
Ratz, David K., editor

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