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Expatriates

2/28/2021

An Unwanted Journey "Home": Black American Internees in World War II Europe

by Eve Brandel

"Living in Europe in the interwar years, Black Americans enjoyed freedoms denied them at home, but, ironically, America’s entry into World War II meant arrest and internment for those who had not left in time."

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Expatriates

An Unwanted Journey "Home": Black American Internees in World War II Europe

by Eve Brandel