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The graphic above is detail from a serving tray featured in the book Camp Letters: 1942 - 1945. The inscription on the back says, “To Alice C. Stiller. Made in Camp Ft. Lincoln, North Dakota 1943 to remember me by. Your Daddy.”
Camp Letters: 1942 - 1945
Camp Letters: 1942 - 1945 is a collection of more than 200 letters and other documents from Alice Stiller to her husband Bruno while he was imprisoned in the Alien Enemy Internment Camps during the Second World War.
This book is a primary source document of life on the homefront during the war. At the time, most Americans did not even know that Germans and their families were held in these internment camps, the same as the Japanese.
While Bruno was away, Alice ran the family restaurant. In 1942 she cared for their three children and was expecting a fourth. Alice writes about her financial struggles, making repairs herself, driving in a blizzard to visit Bruno with children in tow, and her attempts to get him released. Alice was fighting her own war to keep what she and Bruno had built in his adopted country.
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