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Outback Internment
During WWII Britain deported some of the Germans and Austrians classed as 'enemy aliens' to prison camps in the Australian outback.
During WWII some Germans and Austrians classed as 'enemy aliens' by the British were sent halfway across the world to be interned in prison camps in the Australian outback. Bern Brent was a 17 year old refugee from Berlin, who'd fled the Nazis on the Kindertransport - but he was taken away from his life in London and put on a troop ship heading for Melbourne. Hear his story.
Photo: 'Enemy aliens' being rounded up in Britain. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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