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Treasonous Conduct: Assessing the Wartime Activities, Post‐War Trials and Tribulations of Australian Collaborators in the Second World War *
Author(s) -
Loeffel Robert
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2009.01502a.x
Subject(s) - world war ii , political science , spanish civil war , prisoners of war , unit (ring theory) , law , war crime , criminology , history , media studies , sociology , psychology , mathematics education , international law
There has been very little written about the activities of Australian citizens collaborating with the Germans during the Second World War. There are, however, a few instances where Australian citizens were involved in activities in Germany which could be considered treasonous. A number of these were individuals involved in an ill‐conceived military unit created by the Germans from British prisoners of war while there is at least one example of an Australian who allegedly carried out propaganda broadcasts for the Germans. The activities of these individuals and the way the authorities dealt with these cases after the war will be the focus of this article.