The Holocaust and Australia 1933-1945: Rejection and Memory

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Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 26, 1 (2022)

Author(s) AbstractDuring the past few decades, Professor Paul Bartrop has emerged as certainly among Australia's foremost authorities on this country's attitudes towards the Holocaust and the admission of Jewish refugees during this tragic period. He has now produced a magnum opus on the topic, bringing together evidence from hundreds of published and unpublished sources to present a comprehensive examination of this tragic period. What he sets out is certainly a depressing and deplorable record of prejudice, misunderstanding, chauvinism, and bigotry by most of Australia's political leaders, senior bureaucrats, and opinion leaders which, with hindsight, cannot be defended, although it is much more understandable given Australia's high levels of unemployment during the Depression and the near-universal wish at the time for Australia to remain overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic in its ethnic makeup.
Year2022
Pages138-140