The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R

by Ernest Robert Zimmermann and Michel S. Beaulieu

For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain feared might comprise Hitler's rumoured "fifth column" of alien enemies residing within the Commonwealth. For the first time and in riveting detail, the author illuminates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888646739
• ISBN13: 9780888646736
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"