Biography
Richard Kretschmann is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Detroit, Michigan as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
Richard Kretschmann is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the Wisconsin camp at 6:00 a.m. on May 1, 1942. The roster assigns the administrative classification “Enemy Alien Interned” and lists Detroit, Michigan as the person’s earlier address. It documents actual wartime administrative custody, not a criminal conviction. Initial arrest, admission, final release and completed detention duration remain unverified.
The individually named entry appears on roster sheet 7, row 5, with historical serial stem 8-21-G-5. The table labels Camp McCoy as the place of detention and marks the internment category “Permanently.” That word is an administrative classification in this dated roster, not a measured term or proof of lifelong detention. Its “transferred from” column names Detroit; no transfer day is printed.
May 1, 1942 is the roster’s observation date. It is not entered as a first arrest or admission date. The roster’s civilian-internment classification does not establish guilt, a particular political affiliation, ethnicity, citizenship, birth date or gender. No current imprisonment is inferred from this historical document.
Official Camp McCoy roster, May 1, 1942, PDF page 27, sheet 7, row 5.
The March 3, 1942 Sixth Corps Area report individually names Richard Kretschmann among six civilian internees accepted at Camp McCoy from Detroit on January 25, 1942. The February 27 personnel-record transmittal corroborates the identity. This adds an earlier, actual camp-arrival fact to the May 1 roster observation. The transfer receipt is not an initial arrest or first confinement date; no continuous total is calculated.