Biography
The March 16, 1942 Camp McCoy personnel-record transmittal individually names Fritz E. Laqua among civilian enemy-alien internees whose records were sent to the Provost Marshal General. The associated May 1 roster identifies the same person by the matching serial stem, but the surname in that roster was partly obscured by the archive reproduction strip. This earlier clear record supplies the full name; no name is reconstructed from alphabetic order. The record concerns wartime civilian administrative confinement. No criminal conviction, ethnicity, citizenship or political affiliation is inferred. Exact initial detention, final release and completed custody duration remain unverified. Administrative descriptions of permanent internment are not treated as life sentences.
The March 16, 1942 Camp McCoy personnel-record transmittal individually names Fritz E. Laqua among civilian enemy-alien internees whose records were sent to the Provost Marshal General. The associated May 1 roster identifies the same person by the matching serial stem, but the surname in that roster was partly obscured by the archive reproduction strip. This earlier clear record supplies the full name; no name is reconstructed from alphabetic order.
The record concerns wartime civilian administrative confinement. No criminal conviction, ethnicity, citizenship or political affiliation is inferred. Exact initial detention, final release and completed custody duration remain unverified. Administrative descriptions of permanent internment are not treated as life sentences.
The INS listed Fritz E. Laqua in custody at Fort Lincoln Internment Camp, Bismarck, North Dakota, as of February 29, 1944. This roster does not establish a transfer date or completed detention duration.
Source: INS custody roster, February 29, 1944, physical page 24.