New on dunera.de March 15, 2026
New release: Dunera News 123
Goals defined, board elected
Arandora Star – The “Nominal Rolls”
“What fleeing sounds like”
New on dunera.de November 9, 2025
New on dunera.de October 25, 2025
Online-Event: Remembering Heinz Henghes
Event marking the 85th anniversary
“The Traveler” as a musical melodrama
“… catch them all, in any case …”
The “Song of 200”
85 years ago: the arrival of the Dunera
New on dunera.de July 25, 2025
Dunera News 121 published
New on dunera.de June 26, 2025
Dunera on video
Overcoming trauma with art
New on dunera.de 21 April 2025
Read again: “Australian Landfall”
„The Passenger“ in Berlin
New on dunera.de 20 March 2025
“Taking the side of the decent”
New on dunera.de 21 February 2025
New Dunera Newsletter published
New on dunera.de 28 January 2025
Meeting Point Tatura 2025
Dunera Association changes its name
New on dunera.de 28 December 2024
New on dunera.de 29 November 2024
“Dunera Mass” again in Sydney
More than just biographical
Premiere in Sydney: Biopic about Dunera Boy Walter Kaufmann
dunera.de invited to symposium
Exile in art: Dunera stories
100 years of the Berlin S-Bahn
Dunera anniversary 2024 in Sydney and Hay
Music and art by Dunera-internees
New on dunera.de 24 June 2024
Networking meeting for descendants
“The Passenger” back on stage
New on dunera.de 27 May 2024:
Biopic about Walter Kaufmann
New on dunera.de 5 May 2024
New on dunera.de 25 April 2024
Webinar: Dunera and the Wiener Library
New on dunera.de 19 April 2024
Welcome to dunera.de
“Sergeant Snow White” back on stage
Dunera News 117 published
Change of leadership
Dunera Interest Group founded
Audio installation “The Passenger”
Taking up Arms Against Fascism
A historian contacted dunera.de, leading to a new topic: Among other things, he is researching the Allied crossing of the Rhine in March 1945 near his hometown of Wesel. Dunera Boy Egon Vogel was involved in this. Like thousands of refugees from many countries, he was a soldier in the unarmed British engineering unit A.M.P.C. and had volunteered when fighters were being sought for an international commando unit.
Further research revealed that nine—rather than the five previously known—of the Dunera deportees were members of No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando, formed in early 1943. This unit was divided into language groups; nearly 90 emigrants from Germany and Austria were assigned to No. 3 Troop. They fought, among other places, on D-Day, during the capture of the island of Walcheren, and in Italy.
Revised: Media & Links
The Media & Links section of dunera.de has been expanded and reorganized. A brand-new addition is the Movies for Cinema & TV section, which features information on feature films and documentaries, (auto)biographical accounts, and recordings of events.
The sections on Biographies & Novels, Nonfiction, German-language archives and institutions, as well as archives and institutions in Australia and around the world, now have their own pages and have been expanded.
Numerous memoirs and historical studies have been published about “the King’s Most Loyal Enemy Aliens,” as one book title aptly puts it. The new article “X Commando – Taking up Arms Against Fascism” recounts the history of this unit and features short biographies of the nine Dunera Boys of No. 3 Troop, three of whom gave their lives in the fight against fascism.
In 1943, No. 3 Troop poses for the photographer. Photo credit: Commando Veterans Archive, Colin Anson Archive.
