Civilian internee

Japan interned 130,000 Dutch, British, and American civilians in Asia during World War II.

From December 1941 to April 1942 in World War II, Japan conquered much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific region.

Tens of thousands of non-combatant civilians of countries at war with Japan resided in those territories.

[6] Long before 1945, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force had worked out automatic arrest categories ranging from the top Nazi Party leadership to the ortsgruppenleiter (local group leader) from the top Gestapo agents to leaders of the Hitler Youth, the Peasants' League, and the Labor Front.

In September 1945, 82,000 suspects were being held in internment camps, available for possible trial and sentencing as members of criminal organizations.

Members of the SS and functionaries of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations who were covered by the category of "automatic arrest" were interned by the U.S. occupation authorities in the former Dachau concentration camp.