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Based on interviews with surviving inmates and their descendants and on historical photographs and documents,\n <i>\n Aleut Evacuation\n </i>\n proceeds in largely chronological fashion, starting with a brief portrait of the Aleut community prior to the war, then covering their forcible removal by the U.S. government—ostensibly for their own protection in the face of possible Japanese attack—and their subsequent incarceration in several different camps. Focusing first on the largest camp, Funter Bay, which held those from the Pribilof Islands, it also considers a camp on Killisnoo Island where those from Atka were held, along with Ward Lake, where those from smaller villages were incarcerated. Former inmates remember the poor and harsh conditions in the camps and the rampant health problems they suffered which resulted in the deaths of some 10% of inmates. The film contrasts these conditions with the relatively good treatment that German POW received in a camp just a few miles from Funter Bay.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Aleut Evacuation\n </i>\n goes on to cover the role of seal harvesting in the gradual release of inmates and the return of the Aleuts to their homes at the end of the war. To add insult to injury, many returned to find their homes and churches had been vandalized and looted by American military personnel in their absence. 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