Internees

People from enemy nations in Australia were interned throughout the first and the second world wars. They included Germans, Austrians, Irish (after the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin), Italians and Japanese.

Hans Lindau, born in Berlin, was interned in Britain as an enemy alien in 1940, and sent to Australia on the Dunera. He was interned at Hay and later Tatura camp. Lindau made this coat hanger at Hay, noting it was made ‘out of material just at hand, there was a war on, you know’. He was released in 1943.