Biography
G. Herbert Walther was a German-born naturalized US citizen and Honolulu concrete-company accountant. His March 11, 1942 letter from Camp McCoy reported that he and his wife were arrested in Honolulu on December 8, 1941 under enemy-alien suspicion. He described the February 20 removal of thirteen citizens with other internees to the mainland and protested more than three months of confinement despite their citizenship. The ACLU’s March 25 intervention identified him as the group’s apparent spokesman. An August 3, 1942 reply addressed him at Sand Island and referred his request for release to the Hawaiian Department; it did not grant release. His wife is not individually named in these documents.
G. Herbert Walther was a German-born naturalized US citizen and Honolulu concrete-company accountant. His March 11, 1942 letter from Camp McCoy reported that he and his wife were arrested in Honolulu on December 8, 1941 under enemy-alien suspicion. He described the February 20 removal of thirteen citizens with other internees to the mainland and protested more than three months of confinement despite their citizenship. The ACLU’s March 25 intervention identified him as the group’s apparent spokesman. An August 3, 1942 reply addressed him at Sand Island and referred his request for release to the Hawaiian Department; it did not grant release. His wife is not individually named in these documents. Administrative wartime confinement, not a judicial sentence. G. Herbert Walther was a German-born naturalized US citizen and Honolulu concrete-company accountant. His March 11, 1942 letter from Camp McCoy reported that he and his wife were arrested in Honolulu on December 8, 1941 under enemy-alien suspicion. He described the February 20 removal of thirteen citizens with other internees to the mainland and protested more than three months of confinement despite their citizenship. The ACLU’s March 25 intervention identified him as the group’s apparent spokesman. An August 3, 1942 reply addressed him at Sand Island and referred his request for release to the Hawaiian Department; it did not grant release. His wife is not individually named in these documents.
Original wartime civilian internment records, PDF pages 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17.
