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Concentration camp [B 12161] • Photograph

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Summary

Concentration camp at Torrens Island. The Torrens Island Internment Camp was a World War I detention camp which held up to 400 men of German or Austro-Hungarian background between October 1914 and August 1915. The prisoners were interned in tents in very uncomfortable conditions. In 1915 a new commanding officer shifted the camp to another location on the island and conditions deteriorated. Guards were routinely offensive, violent and brutal but when an American internee was flogged he wrote to the US Consul and the conditions were brought into the open. The camp was quietly closed in 1915. The official records were destroyed

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Physical description

Photograph; 13.3 cm x 39.7 cm (image); 26 cm x 52 cm (mount)

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1914

Photographer

Dubotzki, Paul

Collection

Part of Torrens Island Collection

Subject

Torrens Island Internment Camp (S.A.)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Concentration camps -- South Australia -- Torrens Island

Catalogue record

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Digitisation information

Date

09/08/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

6,409 x 2,279 pixels (14.6 MP)

Size

43.85 MB

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