A future unlived : a forgotten chapter in South Australia's history / by Michael Wohltmann, foreword by Dr. Paul Pickering
- Bib ID:
- 7293386
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wohltmann, Michael, author
- Related Online Resources:
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- Printer:
- Digital Print Australia.
- Description:
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- [Greenwith, South Australia] : [Michael Wohltmann], [2016]
- ©2016
- xvi, 432 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits and facsimiles (some colour) ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646958774
- Summary:
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"A history of the internment of German enemy aliens on Torrens Island and the marginalization of Germans in South Australia during 1914-1924."--Cover.
"Tells the compelling story of what happened to the 7000 German-Australians caught up in a war hysteria that transformed their lives, both during and after the Great War."--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Foreward / by Dr Paul Pickering
- Introduction
- 1. Background and personal stories
- 2. Public memory and history of forgetting
- 3. German New Guinea
- 4. Marginalization of German-Australians in South Australia
- 5. Censorship, propaganda and the use of the term "German Huns"
- 6. War Precautions Act
- 7. Torrens Island concentration camp
- 8. The trial
- 9. Deportation of enemy aliens
- 10. Allegiance, loyalty and disloyalty in the post-war period
- 11. Royal commissions into loyalty of Germans in Australia and South Australia
- 12. Conclusion
- Postscript : Torrens Island through the eyes of Corporal V.R. Sedgwick.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-425) and index.
- Material complementary to the book available at www.torrensislandinternmentcamp.com.au.
- Subject:
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- Torrens Island Internment Camp (S.A.) -- History
- Germans -- South Australia -- History
- Germany -- Colonies -- New Guinea -- History
- Prisoners of war -- South Australia -- Torrens Island -- History
- Concentration camps -- South Australia -- Torrens Island -- History
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Concentration camps -- South Australia -- Torrens Island -- History
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Propaganda
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pickering, Paul A, writer of foreword
- Also Titled:
- Future unlived : a forgotten chapter in South Australia's history : a history of the internment of German enemy aliens on Torrens Island and the marginalization of Germans in South Australia during 1914-1924
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- Publication date:
- 2016
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