Karl Muffler was interned as a German enemy alien at Tatura, from 1939 to 1944.

Prisoners first lived in huts, but eventually included its own store, kitchen, mess huts, showers, shops and vegetable gardens.

Hofmann's drawing of the Tatura Internment Camp shows the camp buildings in the background and several figures going about their daily tasks.

Troops going to the Boer War and World War I trained in paddocks near the Jordan River and in World War II, it was the last Australian state to receive prisoners of war. Karl Muffler was interned as a German enemy alien at Tatura, from 1939 to 1944.

Picture: Lewecki, News_Image_File: FEBRUARY 4, 1944: The compounds of the 12th Australian POW Camp at Cowra. He moved to London in 1939, where he was employed with Harrods Emporium, drawing crayon portraits for 50 pounds each. Conditions were tough, the mess halls were the only heated rooms in Camp 1 and only one section of Camp 2 had hot showers. The 65-room Dhurringile mansion was used as a POW camp for German officers. At Tatura Internment Camp, Karl Muffler, a baker before his capture, was able to continue his love for baking, designing and creating cakes for sale which he advertised through the theatre programs at the camp.

He had also been a Major in charge of a Turkish regiment. News_Image_File: The POWs at Marrinup were put to work due to a shortage of labourers in Western Australia. In some cases copyright belongs to third parties and has been published here under a licence agreement: this does not authorise you to copy that material. However, internees at Camp 4 lived in corrugated iron huts, which were very hot in summer and freezing in winter as the windows had no glass. It began operating in June, 1941, specially built to house POWs brought to Australia from overseas. He was transferred to Tatura internment camp and while there undertook woodcarving and drafting classes and worked as a cake decorator. News_Image_File: 1915: A view of what the camp looked like almost 100 years ago in Brisbane. There is a large drum propped up with two sticks at the left foreground. News_Image_File: FEBRUARY 4, 1944: Group headquarter buildings at Cowra. Picture: Australian War Memorial. In November 1940 the other compound at Hay, Camp 6 (near the Hay Hospital), was occupied by Italian civilian internees. Sadly, the heritage-listed army barracks were destroyed by fire in September last year. Picture: Australian War Memorial, News_Image_File: APRIL 28, 1943: Inside one of the wards of 80 Australian Camp hospital in Brighton. The Australian War Memorial acknowledges the traditional custodians of country. During 1930-1939 he was a court painter for the Hapsburg family, painting portraits. Carter is sitting on the bed. Italian internees were housed on the island during the second conflict. Cartree, News_Image_File: 1915: A gymnasium in use at Enogerra Army camp complex. News_Image_File: Rottnest Island has returned to being a tourist destination. Cowra commemorates its history with a Japanese war cemetery, and a Japanese garden was later built. Orphan works, where the copyright owner is unknown, also require permission for reuse.

Museums Victoria does not own the copyright in all the material on this website. More than 50 compounds were in use during World War II, and in a bid to remember the history behind our own backyard, we’ve highlighted a few across each state.

Picture: Australian War Memorial, News_Image_File: JANUARY 27, 1944: Perimeter wiring at a corner of Moorook Camp, one of the Loveday Internment Camp Group in the Barmera area. Object Name Dunera Boys Hay Internment Camp Collection. Picture: Cowra Visitor Information Centre, News_Image_File: Picture: Cowra Visitor Information Centre, News_Image_File: AUGUST 5, 1944: The burial of Australian soldiers killed during the Cowra breakout. The theme of internment and restriction of 'enemy aliens' during World War II can be explored through documents, mementoes, drawings, tokens and internment craft, and this collection is complemented by a large number of documents relating to Muffler held by the National Archives of Australia.The collection also provides a comprehensive overview of a migrant's experience: from garnering qualifications in country of origin to migrating; establishing a working life as practitioner and teacher; community connections and the subsequent consequences of those activities; the establishment of a domestic and social life, through marriage and ongoing cultural links; and the experiences of loss through separation through relocation, and loss of family due to war.

Supplied by Australian War Memorial. 12 Camp stayed in operation until January 1947, when the last Japanese and Italian prisoners were repatriated. News_Image_File: MAY 13, 1943: Japanese internees leave the train which brought them from Hay, NSW, on their way to the Loveday Internment Camp Group. It was the first war cemetery to be established in Australia. At the peak of the invasion threat in 1942, more than 12,000 people were housed in these compounds. But internees were able to develop tennis courts, workshops, a newspaper, flower and vegetable gardens and start small businesses such as haircutting and tailoring.

It also featured a camp school taught by German teachers. 359 POWs escaped, while four Australian soldiers and more than 250 Japanese soldiers were killed. The No. It was home to mostly Slavs during the first World War who lived in stone houses and tents. One man at right distance is hanging out the washing on a clothesline. This will help us to understand what’s popular and why so that we can continue to improve access to the collections. In 1922 he received the Prix de Rome in Vienna. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. The first train load of internees left Queensland for camps in central Victoria in February 1942, but there were six camps already set up within the state. Photograph Stephen Thompson. News_Image_File: Headlines from The Sunday Telegraph at the time, reporting on the Cowra breakout. Robert Hofmann (1899-1987) painted in Poland and the Middle East during the First World War. It documents the camp grounds, security gates and barbed wire. Picture: Australian War Memorial, News_Image_File: APRIL 23, 1943: These newly-arrived recruits are being addressed by Sergeant W T Knott.

Object/Collection Description A collection of objects from the German and Austrian Jewish refugees from the SS Dunera who were interred at Hay internment camp during World War II. Note the Australian flag on the wall and in background, a large Rising Sun insignia over the bar. The largest camp during World War l was at Holsworthy, west of Sydney. Cartree. Picture: Australian War Memorial. He maintained a connection to the German community though Club Tivoli and died in 1996. On 4th September, 1939 Karl Muffler, along with dozens of other German residents (including his father-in-law), was placed into police custody as an enemy alien.

Text content on this page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, Drawing - Camp Grounds, Tatura Interment Camp, Karl Muffler, 1942, https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1346889, Karl Friedrich Muffler, German Migrant, Pastry Chef & Internee, 1930. Enoggera was located next to an existing army camp in what is now suburban Brisbane. Civilians were sent to Rottnest Island, which was used as a prison, tourist destination and an internment camp in both World War I and II. Some committed suicide, others were killed by machine guns, while those left standing were captured and sent back to camp within 10 days. It consisted of four camps, two at Tatura and two at Rushworth, a couple of kilometres away. The lands where the camps are situated has since been sold and is now in private hands, however, the German War Cemetery was built next to the Tatura cemetery a few years after the war ended. Karl Friedrich Muffler, was born 14 June 1900 in south-west Germany, he qualified pastry chef and confectioner in 1917. News_Image_File: APRIL 23, 1943: Troops in a mess hut at the general depot. German, Japanese and Italian prisoners of war were transferred to Queensland following capture overseas. Invalid postcode. Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. Represented are the operational activities of pastry businesses around Melbourne in the 1930s, brought to life through tools and business records.

News_Image_File: Dhurringile mansion after it was taken over by the military for use as a Prisoner of War camp in 1943. This is one of seven sketches completed by Karl Muffler in Tatura internment camp, 1939-1944. Picture: Ross Duncan. 300 Italian internees were employed as railway workers at Cook on the Trans — Australia line. Picture: H.G. Join the conversation, you are commenting as, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -, WILLIAM AND KATE MAKE SURPRISE APPEARANCE AT DAWN SERVICE, QANTAS COPS CRITICISM OVER ‘TACKY’ ANZAC DAY CAMPAIGN, told of experiencing the Australian “fair go”, Premier reveals which restrictions will stay on Sunday, See where you could go under potential 20km bubble, William’s family opens up about ‘harrowing’ death, Telstra hands crucial phone records to hotel inquiry, Trade talk: Why Eddie’s new deal has been delayed. More than 300km west of Sydney lies a farming district by the name of Cowra. Muffler quickly established himself in Melbourne, commencing employment with Bill Ikinger (who had recruited and sponsored him) at his cake shop in Brunswick, as well as joining the long-running German establishment 'Club Tivoli'. At first glance it looks like any other ordinary, quiet, country town, but in fact, it is responsible for the bloodiest — and largest — prison escapes in British and Australian War history. Of key interest is the theme of working life and the proactive transporting of commercial and culinary traditions to Australia via the immigration process.

Use this login for Shop items, and image, film, sound reproductions, throughout Australia. To this day, visitors can take a walking trail throughout the camp ruins and the local council is working on renovating upgrading hat is left of the site. Figure 11: Karl Muffler cake design . After the drama of the breakout, most of the Japanese POWs were transferred from Cowra to another POW camp in Hay, NSW, where the prisoners were held in high security. BY In 1939 thousands of Australian residents suddenly found themselves identified as potential threats to Australia's national security. Picture: SGT H.K. waters.

This is one of seven sketches completed by Karl Muffler in Tatura internment camp, 1939-1944.This item relates to Karl Friedrich Muffler, qualified pastry chef and confectioner, born in 1900, who migrated to Melbourne from Germany in 1930, aboard the passenger liner 'Balranald'. Those who escaped imprisonment were forced to carry police permits to travel outside their residential district and their mail was regularly intercepted. Picture: Australian War Memorial, News_Image_File: APRIL 23, 1943: A general view of the Brighton Army Barracks as it looked back then. Koreans, Chinese and Indonesians were also held here. On August 5, 1944, a mob of at least 1,104 Japanese POWs staged a mass breakout, attempting to break through the barbed wire fences of the compound with the aid of blankets. OverviewThe Immigrant Stories and Timeline Gallery shifts the focus of visitors from a global to a very local and personalised perspective. Most were located in the Goulburn Valley because food was plentiful and there was a good supply of water. No. There is a large drum propped up with two sticks at the left foreground. Many of the first German prisoners were sailors from the HSK Kormoran, which sank during a battle with the second HMAS Sydney off the coast of Western Australia in 1941. One man at right distance is hanging out the washing on a clothesline.

Hofmann was one of the latter, taken first to Hay, New South Wales and later to Tatura in Victoria.



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