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Download Audio from the ABC radio play A Doubtful Character (MP3) (MP3 Audio File (Tagged), 425 KB) Download Transcript from the ABC radio play A Doubtful Character (PDF) (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 17 KB)- Title
- A doubtful character: Wolf Klaphake
- Author(s)
- Neumann, Klaus
- Abstract
- Scientist and inventor Wolf Klaphake (1900-67) emigrated from Germany in 1935. This website traces the story of his four-year detention in Australian internment camps during World War II.
- Publication Type
- Creative work
- Research Centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Keyword(s)
- 20th century history; Australia; Biography; Germans; History; Immigrants; Internment camps; Inventors; Klaphake, Wolf, 1900-1967; Migrant history; Scientists; Twentieth century history; World War II (1939-1945)
- Publisher
- National Archives of Australia
- Publisher URL
- http://uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/life.asp?lID=1
- Copyright
- Website text and sound transcripts copyright © 2003 Klaus Neumann.
- Additional Information
- 'A doubtful character' is the first instalment in the series 'Uncommon Lives', which features the biographies of famous and not-so-famous Australians. Drawing extensively on documents and images from the Archives' collection, the website retraces the life of the inventor Wolf Klaphake.
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