Hay Internment and POW camps
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hay-internment-and-pow-camps-184-11284534
title:
Hay Internment and POW camps
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The Hay Internment and POW camps at Hay, New South Wales, Australia were established during World War II as prisoner-of-war and internment centres, due in part to the isolated location of the town. Three high-security camps were constructed in 1940. The first arrivals were over two thousand refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria, most of whom were Jewish; they had been interned in the United Kingdom as enemy aliens when the possibility of an Axis invasion of Britain was at its highest. The Briti
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Camps in New South Wales, Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_Internment_and_POW_camps
date created:
2010-07-13T10:59:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T09:55:56Z
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