City of Fort Dodge, Iowa

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During World War II the U.S. Government interned 15,000 German-American civilians, including U.S. citizens and 4,058 Latin-American Germans brought here and later exchanged for Nazi-held Americans. Perhaps the least known chapter of American WWII history, its legacy has implications for today.  Housed in a school bus converted into a mobile museum with its own 21-seat theater, VANISHED illustrates this unknown story through narrative texts, artifacts, and multi-media.

 

The exhibit will be on the south side of the Fort Dodge Public Library from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm on Friday, October 27 2006.