Biography
Oscar Frederick Koehler was individually recorded in a Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, receipt report dated 1942-05-23. The report states that this civilian internee was received at the camp on 1942-05-22. Received 2:35 p.m. from Chicago INS. This documents a transfer into actual wartime administrative confinement, rather than a criminal sentence. The printed historical internee identifier is ISN-10-12-G-71-CI.
Oscar Frederick Koehler was individually recorded in a Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, receipt report dated 1942-05-23. The report states that this civilian internee was received at the camp on 1942-05-22. Received 2:35 p.m. from Chicago INS. This documents a transfer into actual wartime administrative confinement, rather than a criminal sentence. The printed historical internee identifier is ISN-10-12-G-71-CI. Civilian wartime administrative internment; no individual criminal charge or conviction is stated. The source’s permanent-internment terminology describes an administrative classification, not a life sentence. The receipt date, when supplied, is a facility-transfer observation, not a verified first arrest or beginning of all custody. No physical release date, complete custody duration, present custody status, ethnicity or ideology is inferred.
Original Camp McCoy civilian internment records, PDF page 51.
The INS listed Oscar Friedrich Koehler 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 22.