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Chris2
08-11-2004, 04:16 AM
I came across this little tidbit by accident. I go past that cenotaph everyday.

ADELAIDE, SA. C.1934. WREATH FEATURING A SWASTIKA AT THE BASE OF A CITY CENOTAPH. THE WREATH HAD POSSIBLY BEEN LAID BY A MEMBER OF THE NATIONALIST SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC WORKERS PARTY (NSDWP), ADELAIDE BRANCH. THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS AMONGST PAPERS OF THE PARTY CONFISCATED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1939. MANY OF THE MEMBERS WERE INTERNED AS ENEMY ALIENS. THE COLLECTION ALSO CONTAINED CARDS FROM THE GERMAN WORKER'S FRONT AND THE UNION OF FRIENDS OF THE HITLER MOVEMENT.

http://cas.awm.gov.au/pls/PRD/ump.retrieve_uma?surl=536419031ZZZFYEFUZZCVB&parm1=UMO_ID&parm2=450305&parm1=DISPLAY_TYPE&parm2=RAW&parm1=DISPLAY_WHAT&parm2=MASTER&parm1=LOGIN_TYPE&parm2=PROFILEG&parm1=AID&parm2=2000

ADELAIDE, SA. C.1934. A MAN BENDS OVER A WREATH FEATURING A SWASTIKA AT THE BASE OF A CITY CENOTAPH. THE WREATH HAD POSSIBLY BEEN LAID BY A MEMBER OF THE NATIONALIST SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC WORKERS PARTY (NSDWP), ADELAIDE BRANCH. THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS AMONGST PAPERS OF THE PARTY CONFISCATED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1939. MANY OF THE MEMBERS WERE INTERNED AS ENEMY ALIENS. THE COLLECTION ALSO CONTAINED CARDS FROM THE GERMAN WORKER'S FRONT AND THE UNION OF FRIENDS OF THE HITLER MOVEMENT.

http://cas.awm.gov.au/pls/PRD/ump.retrieve_uma?surl=536419031ZZZFYEFUZZCVB&parm1=UMO_ID&parm2=450306&parm1=DISPLAY_TYPE&parm2=RAW&parm1=DISPLAY_WHAT&parm2=MASTER&parm1=LOGIN_TYPE&parm2=PROFILEG&parm1=AID&parm2=2000

TANUNDA, SA. 1934. GROUP PORTRAIT OF SOME OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE NATIONALIST SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC WORKERS PARTY (NSDWP), ADELAIDE BRANCH, STANDING BESIDE A TREE WRAPPED IN A SWASTIKA FLAG ON THE GOMERSAL ROAD, TANUNDA. LEFT TO RIGHT: ? FINNAMANN (DECEASED IN ?1939), ERNST EMIL STARKE (INTERNED), CARL ROHDE, ? WALLENSTEIN (RETURNED TO GERMANY), WILHELM F. ABEL (INTERNED), WALTER BARTSCH (INTERNED), H. HAHN (RETURNED TO GERMANY), O. BOHLENS (INTERNED). THE PHOTOGRAPH IS AMONGST PAPERS CONFISCATED FROM THE PARTY AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1939. MANY OF THE MEMBERS WERE INTERNED AS ENEMY ALIENS.

http://cas.awm.gov.au/pls/PRD/ump.retrieve_uma?surl=536419031ZZZFYEFUZZCVB&parm1=UMO_ID&parm2=450307&parm1=DISPLAY_TYPE&parm2=RAW&parm1=DISPLAY_WHAT&parm2=MASTER&parm1=LOGIN_TYPE&parm2=PROFILEG&parm1=AID&parm2=2000

Dr. Brandt
08-11-2004, 10:01 AM
pics dont show! :(

Chris2
08-12-2004, 06:26 AM
Here they are: