

The largest camp was Holsworthy Internment Camp at Holsworthy. In 1915 many of the smaller camps in Australia closed, with their inmates transferred to larger camps. Almost all of the men listed as being Austrians were from the Croatian coastal region of Dalmatia, then under Austrian rule. See also: List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Australia and Australian immigration detention facilities World War I (Australia) ĭuring World War I, 2,940 German and Austrian men were interned in ten different camps in Australia. There was a total of 340 secret detention centres all over the country's territory. It states that "We have reason to believe that the true figure is much higher" which is due to the fact that by the time they published the report (in late 1984) the research wasn't fully accomplished human rights organizations today consider 30,000 to be killed ( disappeared). According to the report of CONADEP (Argentine National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons) Report. These were relatively small secret detention centres rather than actual camps. This is documented by a number of cases dating since the 1990s in which adopted children have identified their real families.

Small children who were taken with their relatives, and babies born to female prisoners later killed, were frequently given for adoption to politically acceptable, often military, families. Prisoners were often forced to hand and sign over property, in acts of individual, rather than official and systematic, corruption. 43.7 Migrants at the Mexico–United States borderĭuring the Dirty War which accompanied the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, there were over 300 places throughout the country that served as secret detention centres, where people were interrogated, tortured, and killed.

