The extraordinary stories of European refugees who escaped Nazi persecution only to confront new forms of exclusion through Australia’s legal and bureaucratic systems.
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42 min
3. Displaced
In the aftermath of World War II, a charismatic Estonian man named Ilmar Tammelo arrived in Australia as one of more than 170,000 in the Displaced Persons Scheme. Trained as a lawy…
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42 min
2. Enemy Alien
Leonhard Adam’s life was twice transformed by bureaucratic categories. Declared a “non-Aryan” by Nazi rules, he was forced out of his career and from his home in Germany. He fled t…
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45 min
1. Escape
The Nazi rise to power looms over Europe in the 1930s, causing an exodus of emigrants seeking refuge from persecution. But fleeing fascism involves contending with the arcane - and…
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4 min
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Coming October 1st - This podcast explores the extraordinary stories of European refugees who escaped Nazi persecution, only to confront new forms of exclusion through Australia’s…