The U.S. At War, ENEMY ALIENS: Christmas at The White

In the spacious halls of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., where leisure-loving Southerners played before the Civil War, a lonely gathering of Nazis celebrated Christmas. They were among the 159 German and Hungarian diplomats and newsmen and their families who have been transferred to "The White" from Washington.

On Christmas Eve they had a party in the hotel auditorium for the 15 little Nazi children in the party. (Some of the children were born in the U.S., are technically U.S. citizens.) It was a subdued affair, burdened with heavy...

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