New Light on Australia’s World War I History Revealed In Photos By Paul Dubotzki

artwork: Paul Dubotzki - Young internees are transformed into female characters for a theatrical production in the Holsworthy internment camp, c1915-19. Photo: Dubotzki Collection, Germany. Dubotzki’s stunning photographs featured in a new book and an exhibition opened 7 May at the Museum of Sydney.


SYDNEY.- Recently discovered photographs of Australia’s little known internment camps operating during WWI, reveal how the internees created an extraordinary life behind the barbed wire. The photographs, of remarkable artistic quality, show groups of civilian detainees whose only crime was to be of German or Austrian descent.

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