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Torrens Island Concentration Camp
World War I concentration camp in Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Torrens Island Internment Camp was a World War I concentration camp,[1] located on Torrens Island in the Port River Estuary near Adelaide in South Australia. The camp opened on 9 October 1914 and held up to 400 men of German or Austro-Hungarian background, or crew members of enemy ships who had been caught in Australian ports at the beginning of the war. They were held without trial under the provisions of the War Precautions Act 1914.
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