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'His Majesty's Most Loyal Internee': the mystery of Oswald Volkmann

Though many Dunera boys set pen to paper to record their memories, there are few whose writing has come to be so synonymous with the Dunera experience as that of the poet Oswald Volkmann.

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An enigmatic ‘vagabond’: the Dunera artist Kurt Winkler

Kurt Hans Winkler was born in Germany on 26 February 1902, the fourth child of Protestant parents. His birthplace may have been Gransee, near Berlin, but this isn’t certain. His father, Carl Erhard Wilhelm Balduin Kurt Winkler, died about 1912...

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The many mysteries of Hans Rothe, cartoonist

Johann Joseph (Hans) Rothe was born in Vienna on 10 April 1905 to Leopold (b. 1854) and Juliane Rothe, nee Engelhardt (b. 1874). His parents married in 1893, and appear to have moved between Sarajevo and Vienna. Leopold was an official with the...

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