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A May 22, 1942 FBI letter calls Henry Leonard Hoffman an internee at Camp McCoy and concerns his personal effects and efforts to establish his status as a Catholic priest. In his June 8 letter he signed Dr. Heinrich L. Hoffman and sought recognition using Vatican Library documentation. The camp’s same-day endorsement explicitly confirms actual confinement and historical serial ISN-23-4-G-12-CI. The enclosed photograph mentioned in the letter is not reproduced in the PDF and has not been used. 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.
A May 22, 1942 FBI letter calls Henry Leonard Hoffman an internee at Camp McCoy and concerns his personal effects and efforts to establish his status as a Catholic priest. In his June 8 letter he signed Dr. Heinrich L. Hoffman and sought recognition using Vatican Library documentation. The camp’s same-day endorsement explicitly confirms actual confinement and historical serial ISN-23-4-G-12-CI. The enclosed photograph mentioned in the letter is not reproduced in the PDF and has not been used.
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.
Official archival source, PDF page 49; Official archival source, PDF page 55.