Saw a fascinating little doco in Aussie last year about a number of Balkan fascists, post the war who had a mysterious trend in Sydney especially, of meeting an untimely unexplained death.
The doco traced it all back to a Melbourne Jewish watchmaker who had a well known shop on Swan St in Richmond, for any who know that part of Melbs. Not far from AAMI, MCG etc. He was a holocaust survivor and apparently on the ship over from Europe with his brother, some of these Croat or whoever fascists had been on the same boat! Crazy scheduling by whoever. There were fights on board and someone may even have been murdered??
The watchmaker is long since dead, but he used to make regular trips up to NSW for years. Lots of rumours that he & some Jewish mates had knocked off a list of Nazis around Sydney. Some small slice of payback. Secret meetings at the watchshop and all sorts of stuff. The doco was the guy's son and cousins trying to prove the rumours were true. Tricky because many of the fascists came to Aussie with new identities, so tricky today to say whether they were really Nazi camp guards etc or not.
But there was beyond doubt a secretive underground network of Holocaust survivors in Aussie building intel on any Nazis who had got themselves downunder.
The doco traced it all back to a Melbourne Jewish watchmaker who had a well known shop on Swan St in Richmond, for any who know that part of Melbs. Not far from AAMI, MCG etc. He was a holocaust survivor and apparently on the ship over from Europe with his brother, some of these Croat or whoever fascists had been on the same boat! Crazy scheduling by whoever. There were fights on board and someone may even have been murdered??
The watchmaker is long since dead, but he used to make regular trips up to NSW for years. Lots of rumours that he & some Jewish mates had knocked off a list of Nazis around Sydney. Some small slice of payback. Secret meetings at the watchshop and all sorts of stuff. The doco was the guy's son and cousins trying to prove the rumours were true. Tricky because many of the fascists came to Aussie with new identities, so tricky today to say whether they were really Nazi camp guards etc or not.
But there was beyond doubt a secretive underground network of Holocaust survivors in Aussie building intel on any Nazis who had got themselves downunder.