Nazi or anti-Nazi

NAA: D1901/1, K1056, p. 87

N Bell, Translator's Report, 12 June 1941, p. 3, in Loveday Internment Camp internees files, Security Service, South Australia.

N Bell, Translator's Report, 12 June 1941, p. 3.

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NAA: MP508/1, 255/741/381, p. 7

Wolf Klaphake, 'Statement', 16 March 1942, in the Department of the Army general correspondence files.

In March 1942, Klaphake asserted that he was pro-British and anti-Nazi.

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NAA: MP529/8, KLAPHAKE/W, p. 6

In Klaphake's application for leave to submit objections to a detention order, he stated that he had only joined the Nazi Party in order to leave Germany.

Wolf Klaphake's Application for Leave to Submit Objections against Dentention Order, in the files of the Deputy Crown Solicitor's Office, Victoria.

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NAA: MP70/1, 36/101/150, p. 25

Page 4 of Miles, Military Intelligence, 'precis of case', 10 November 1941, in the files of the Australian Military Forces.

Based on information provided by Military Intelligence, in November 1941 the Australian Army (which was responsible for the internment camps) concluded that Klaphake should not be released.

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NAA: MP70/1, 36/101/150, p. 4

Wolf Klaphake to Commandant of Tatura Internment Camp, 16 October 1942, in the files of the Australian Military Forces.

Wolf Klaphake to Commandant Camp 3D, 16 October 1942.

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NAA: ST1233/1, N20785, p. 261

Less than two weeks after being interned, Klaphake wrote to the military authorities to request that the German government not be informed of his internment.

Letter from Wolf Klaphake to the 2nd Military District Commandant in the investigation files of the Investigation Branch, New South Wales.

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