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Immigrants from Axis countries
At the beginning of the war, Colombia was home to a German colony - estimated by the United
States government in December 1941 to consist of about 4,000 people - and a small village of
Japanese farmers in Cauca. The Americans were concerned about the possibility of a "fifth
column" of subversives forming in Colombia and carrying out sabotage and the like against the
nearby Panama Canal Zone.
Colombia monitored, interned, or deported hundreds of people from Germany, Japan, and Italy,
during the war.
