- 1989 edition. RARE 385 pages
- Publisher. William Heinemann
- Hardcover. D/j. Photos. Index
- Condition. Good,
Nazi Fugitives in Australia
Bourgeois Australia has rarely exposed its guilty secrets. One such secret was the safe haven given to Nazi fugitives after the Second World War. Until Mark Aarons revealed this travesty in an ABC radio documentary the guilty lived quietly with their Nazi secrets.Sanctuary examines how and why fascists and Nazi collaborators were allowed to migrate to and settle in Australia along with the thousands of European refugees, in the immediate post-war years. By 1948, as Aarons explains, the governments of the United States of America and Great Britain secretly agreed to end their efforts to bring the practitioners of Nazi terror to justice. Ways of escape for these war criminals became part of Cold War’s real politik. Through the intelligence channels of the U.S.A and Britain, Klaus Barbie, Mengele and other prominent Nazi torturers were found new identities in South America. Scores of lesser known Nazi collaborators and fascists became new citizens of the United States, England, Canada, South Africa and Australia.
As the Aarons study makes clear the secret political police in Australia, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, possessed an abundance of archival evidence of these fugitives’ war-time activities. It was known that they had imprisoned, tortured and murdered thousands in the name of fascism.
Many influential Ministers in successive Menzies governments were also privy to these guilty secrets yet they chose to use such information to their political advantage.
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