The lost voices of Crystal City

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The BBC's Nigel Wrench reports on the forgotten history of the German Americans who were detained in the Crystal City internment camp during World War II.

The road to Crystal City is a long, hot one. Two hours south from San Antonio, Texas.

For Eric Gehrmann, behind the wheel, this is an emotional as well as a physical trip. There is a tear in his eye as we arrive.

Because Crystal City - these days a small dusty town sporting one or two petrol stations for passing motorists - was, during World War II, the site of a vast internment camp for Germans and German Americans alleged, by the US authorities, to be Nazi sympathisers.
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