 The Attorney General submitted this report, "A Review of the Restrictions on Persons of Italian Ancestry During World War II", to the U.S. Congress on November 7, 2001, and the House Judiciary Committee released the report to the public on November 27, 2001.The report, covering the period September 1, 1939, to December 31, 1945, describes the authority under which the United States undertook enforcement of wartime restrictions on Italian Americans and detailed these restrictions.In addition, the report provides 11 lists, most of which include the names of those most directly affected by the wartime restrictions.