Witness History: Witness Archive 2016 - Outback Internment

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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.

Published on Monday, 26th September 2016.

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