Genealogy Projects tagged with Algiers on the Geni Family Tree

Camp Algiers, New Orleans' Forgotten WWII Internment Camp

Scholars are uncovering a grisly use, during the Second World War, of a former embarkation facility on the Mississippi River in Algiers, LA. Following the Japanese attack on the US base on Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt administration suspected that there may have been Nazi spies among the more than a million and a half German-speaking people living in Latin America. Through the State Department-r...