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Home Office Records

HO 213 Aliens Department
General (GEN) files and Aliens' Naturalisation and Nationality (ALN and NTY symbol series) files, 1914-48 contain a selection of files relating to camps. Correspondence regarding treatment of aliens is in (PRO) HO213/494-8. Other information is in (PRO) HO45 and (PRO) HO144 under subject headings 'Aliens', 'Nationality' and 'War'.
(PRO) HO214
Internees: Personal Files, 1940-49. Here there are 75 personal case files.
(PRO) HO215
Internment: General Files, 1940-51. These have nominal camp lists arranged by name of camp.
(PRO) HO382 and (PRO) HO405
Refers to material in process of transfer from the Home Office to the National Archives.
(PRO) HO396
Aliens Department: Internees Index of 307 record sets, mainly Germans, Italians and spouses, 1937-47.
References to individual internees and internment camps are in the printed indexes of Foreign Office general correspondence in the research enquiries room.

(PRO) FO916
Foreign Office records of enemy aliens interned by the British are available and are arranged by location, name and number of camp.
(PRO) CO968
Records of enemy aliens and internees in the colonies are available (some records are subject to extended closure). Note that additional material, for example, the internment camp in Mauritius, is in the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Archives, Johannesburg.
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Creators: Dr Saul Issroff

 
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