Barbed wire and mandolins
When Italiy entered the Seocnd World War on June 10, 1940, the Italian Canadians in Canada, numbering 112,000, were deemed a security risk by the Government of the day. The RCMP rounded up thousands of people it considered facist sympathizers, seven hundred were held for up to three years in internment camps, most of them at Petawawa, Ontario; none were ever charged with a criminal offence. This program includes archival footage, personal stories and interviews with some of those Italian-Canadian prisoners of war in Canada, and their families
Online Video, English, ©1997
National Film Board of Canada, Montréal, ©1997