Internment Correspondence.

Unusual grouping of correspondence sent from the Palace Internment camp on the Isle of Man. Written in Italian to a Liverpool addressee and featuring Censor labels and Internment Camp postal cancellation marks. All letters were written in 1940.
Starting in September 1939 the Government decided to imprison ' foreign or enemy aliens and political and ideological civilian threats to the war effort ' the majority of whom were incarcerated on the I.O.M. Italian men over 16 joined their ranks in June 1940.
The Palace Internment Camp was the largest internment camp in Douglas on the Isle of Man during World War II. It was located in the hotels around the Palace Hotel and held 2,900 men.

Code: 13355