Biography
A spring 1942 Aliens Division memorandum individually identifies J. Guenther Gibbe as a Camp McCoy internee and says the camp commander reported urgent financial need among the internee’s family. The memorandum is an attributed administrative account. It confirms actual civilian confinement; the receipt stamp is not used as an initial arrest or admission date. 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 spring 1942 Aliens Division memorandum individually identifies J. Guenther Gibbe as a Camp McCoy internee and says the camp commander reported urgent financial need among the internee’s family. The memorandum is an attributed administrative account. It confirms actual civilian confinement; the receipt stamp is not used as an initial arrest or admission date.
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 roster dated February 29, 1944 records Guenther Gibbe in custody at Ellis Island. INS roster, physical page 10, row 29.