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  • 1918, Enemy Activities - Miscellaneous - German sailors off for detention camp. Germain sailors from interned ships at Philadelphia en route for detention camps at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort McPherson, Georgia - NARA - 31479799 (cropped).jpg

    Photo by Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Enemy Activities - Internment Camps - Fort McPherson, Georgia - Civilian prisoners leaving for Fort Oglethorpe - NARA - 31479573.jpg

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  • Enemy Activities - Miscellaneous - German sailors off for detention camp. Germain sailors from interned ships at Philadelphia en route for detention camps at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort McPherson, Georgia - NARA - 31479799 (cropped).jpg

    Photo by Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Enemy Activities - Miscellaneous - German sailors off for detention camp. Germain sailors from interned ships at Philadelphia en route for detention camps at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort McPherson, Georgia - NARA - 31479799.jpg

    Photo by Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Enemy Activities - Miscellaneous - Preparing to move interned German sailors from Philadelphia to Georgia - NARA - 31480196 (cropped).jpg

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  • Enemy Activities - Miscellaneous - Preparing to move interned German sailors from Philadelphia to Georgia - NARA - 31480196.jpg

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  • Fort Oglethorpe POW camp entrance.jpg

    Photo by Sgt. McGarrigle, United States Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • War prison barracks at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Hospital in prison barracks - DPLA - 36be418232a45d9540c15c0264645db8.jpg

    Photo by Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. ca. 1974-5/15/1984 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Background

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (German: Orgelsdorf) was a German-American internment camp in Catoosa County, Georgia, during and after World War I. Facilities at the fort were used to detain some 4,000 enemy military personnel, prisoners of war, and civilian internees arrested under the Alien and Sedition Acts, between 1917 and 1920. After it was deactivated in 1947, the Camp's facilities formed the basis for the present day town of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

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