Biography
Bernard Bensch is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Honolulu, Hawaii as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
Bernard Bensch is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Honolulu, Hawaii as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
The individually named entry appears on roster sheet 1, row 11, with historical serial stem HG-4. The table labels Camp McCoy as the place of detention and marks the internment category “Permanently.” That word is an administrative classification in this dated roster, not a measured term or proof of lifelong detention. Its “transferred from” column names Fort McDowell; no transfer day is printed.
May 1, 1942 is the roster’s observation date. It is not entered as a first arrest or admission date. The roster’s civilian-internment classification does not establish guilt, a particular political affiliation, ethnicity, citizenship, birth date or gender. No current imprisonment is inferred from this historical document.
Official Camp McCoy roster, May 1, 1942, PDF page 21, sheet 1, row 11.
The INS custody roster of February 29, 1944 individually lists Bernard Bensch at Fort Lincoln Internment Camp in Bismarck, North Dakota. INS custody roster, February29,1944, physical page 13.