Biography
Gustav Schober was individually listed as a civilian enemy-alien internee held at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in the camp roster observed at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster documents actual wartime administrative confinement; it does not establish a criminal conviction or a complete custody duration.
Gustav Schober was individually listed as a civilian enemy-alien internee held at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in the camp roster observed at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster documents actual wartime administrative confinement; it does not establish a criminal conviction or a complete custody duration. The roster labels the administrative internment classification “Permanently”; this is not a life sentence or a measurement of time served. May 1, 1942 is the roster observation, not an admission date. Initial admission, actual physical release, and final custody duration are unstated. No ethnicity, ideology, criminal offense or present custody status is inferred.
Camp McCoy civilian enemy-alien roster, May 1, 1942, PDF page 31.
A spring 1942 Aliens Division memorandum reports that the Camp McCoy commander identified Gustav Schober’s family as in urgent financial need during his internment. This is the administrative correspondence’s attributed account; the memorandum’s receipt stamp is not used as an admission day or final custody endpoint.
The INS listed Gustav Schober 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 30.