For instance, were there "German internment camps" in the UK, or "American internment camps" in Japan? I mean, I suppose the Holocaust goes without saying, but that was obviously not to get rid of foreign spies or anything like that.
Canada also interned people of Japanese origin in internment camps, in a manner very similar to the way the US did it. Canada had joined the war in Europe in September 1939, but didn't declare war against Japan until the Pearl Harbor attack, and the internment of Japanese residents started after that.
David Suzuki is a very-well-known scientist, geneticist, environmentalist, and TV personality in Canada, and he often talked about his childhood in an internment camp. The community of Steveston (now part of Richmond, BC) had been home to a large community of fishermen and their families from Japan; those families were all uprooted, moved to Alberta or the interior of BC (although there were a few camps in Ontario, Quebec, and even New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), with their boats and homes confiscated by the federal government.
This issue gets covered a fair bit in Canadian schools' social studies programs, especially in Alberta and British Columbia. Gives us an opportunity to look back at the fear and the racism that led to the internment. Anti-East-Asian racism had been a constant in British Columbia from the arrival of the first Chinese railroad workers in the mid-19th century right up until, well, even now, although certainly the worst of it died out over the last few decades.
I'm not a pro historian, and I'm sure there are tons of sources out there of which I'm not aware, but here are a few I have some personal experience watching or reading:
CBC Archives: Relocation to Redress: The Internment of the Japanese Canadians
Two NFB documentaries: Minoru: Memory of Exile (animated), and Enemy Alien.
From The Canadian Encyclopedia, Japanese Internment: Banished and Beyond Tears.
From the CBC TV series Canada: A People's History, Japanese Internment - British Columbia wages war against Japanese Canadians.
One can also see from this thematic index on the website of Library and Archives Canada that there were also other groups interned in Canada during WWI and WWII. I know some Germans were interned in both wars, and I know many Ukrainian-Canadians were interned during WWI if they had come from parts of Ukraine that were then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I don't have anywhere near as much knowledge of those other internments, however, other than that they happened.
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