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Children behind barbed wire.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: As someone who spent a year and a half behind barbed wire in the Australian bush and also the son of a Theresienstadt survivor, may I contribute a view to the contretemps in your June letters pages about Holocaust language and asylum seekers.
To many academics and journalists the government's boat people policy is unacceptable because of the "the banality of evil" resulting in "boundless sorrow". I was a seventeen-year-old internee in a men's compound during the war. In adjacent compounds of the three camps I was in, I saw Japanese families from New Caledonia and also other married couples, one-time residents of Malaya and Singapore, Germans, Austrians and Italians with their children. Another camp held about 650 Germans from what was then Palestine. Over a quarter of these were schoolchildren. I am in touch with someone who was a very young girl in one of those camps and I am not aware that any of us suffered ill-effects arising from these days.
Nobody likes to be incarcerated, particularly if one feels one ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Children behind barbed wire.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)