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Review: Nazis in Australia: The Special Investigations Unit, 1987-1994 –
compiled by Graham Blewitt & edited by Mark Aarons (Schwartz)
Neo-Nazis marching through Australian streets, black-clad and masked, have
become a common sight in recent years. Over a century since the rise of fascism
– Nazism is the German school of fascist ideology – perhaps we have forgotten
or become complacent about what this actually means.
In the cold mud of Serniki, Ukraine, the bullet-riddled skeleton of a mother
shelters her 12-year-old daughter even in death; the tattered remnants of a
baby jacket are all that remain of her second child.
In Liepaja, Latvia, a young girl watches as her family is beaten with rifle
butts and her father is loaded, bleeding, into the back of a truck, never to be
seen again.
In Ćemaluša, now in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a communist is tortured in a
prison, hung upside down from a door and beaten.
A Latvian SS officer participates in the gassing of 30,000 Jews, partisans and
other victims at mobile gassing installations near Minsk.
A Croatian Nazi officer leads a roving death squad near Sarajevo that holds
peremptory “hearings” before torturing and executing countless civilians: men,
women and children.
What these historical crimes have in common is one thing: the Nazi perpetrators
fled to Australia after the war. As Mark Aarons and Graham Blewitt demonstrate
in
Nazis in Australia: The Special Investigations Unit, 1987-1994, such
stories are the tip of a formidable iceberg.
Around 27,000 Australians gave their lives in the fight against fascism during
the second world war. Many of those veterans who returned and who carried
wounds, seen and unseen, all their lives, now lie in Australian graveyards,
along with the very men they fought against."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
