In today's security-conscious environment the loyalties and allegiances of migrant communities
are increasingly being brought into question. Drawing on the collected knowledge of a number of
Australian experts investigating interwar issues of security surveillance and civic rights
from the perspective of migration studies this book aims through the examination of
individuals and groups in Oceania who were targeted for potential subversion or believed to
hold National Socialist sympathies (including local National Socialists Italian-Australians
Russian exiles members of the right-wing movements the New Guard and Australia First) to
consider how issues of security were regarded at another critical point in world history and
what lessons we may learn from that period today. This book examines a variety of motives for
embracing National Socialism and investing hope in the Third Reich. Attitudes shifted over time
from enthusiasm to scepticism and disappointment. But most importantly beyond support and
opposition there was a surprising level of disengagement and indifference from sister
movements on the radical right. This groundbreaking study defies easy answers and
previously-held understandings and will stimulate debate and further research.
