This video talks about Germans living in Australia during World War 1, before Australians declared them to be “enemy aliens” after waging war against Germany and shipped off to intern camps.
We chose to use this video on our blog because it shows the different viewpoints of the treatment of Germans in intern camps in Australia. Although the internees were locked behind bars due to the fact they had German ancestry or were German immigrants and naturalized citizens, in Torrens camp, they were allowed to have small businesses, sporting clubs, theatrical clubs, gymnastics club etc. They were even permitted to build a theatre and had theatrical performances that were popular in Germany at that time to entertain their fellow Germans.
In this way, it kept them busy from thinking that they were in a intern camp as prisoners of wars in Australia.
Good job Vicky :D we're going good.
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