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During World War II, before the mass incarceration of West Coast Japanese Americans, thousands of Japanese, German, and Italian immigrant leaders were confined without due process in U.S. detention and internment camps as suspected threats to national security. At Griffith Park, the Army operated one such camp at the former Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Riverside from February 1942 to July 1943, holding small numbers of men briefly before moving them to other camps away from the West Coast. The camp had two separate but adjoining enclosures surrounded by two ten-foot fences topped with barbed wire; one initially contained three portable CCC barracks for 150 individuals, and later the second received 50 Army pyramidal tents for 400 additional people. The Army retained control of the property until 1947, and today the site is home to the Travel Town Museum and the Los Angeles Live Steamers.
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