Defense Workers Get Gas Mask Training, Survivors Living in Camp

The video covers the training of 12,500 civilian employees at Puget Sound Navy Yard in the use of gas masks and chemical warfare defense. It also discusses the scuttling of the German liner Columbus off the Virginia coast in December 1939 and the subsequent internment of its crew at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. The camp is heavily guarded and costs the Hitler government $18,000 a month.

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