Lot 3655

Description

Tatura Internment Camp, Victoria, 1940 trench art of a local rock (17x9.5cm) with in relief map of Australia, rosella and kangaroo and carved and blackened details, 'Tatura Vic Internment Camp 1940', lacquered and with X003T written on base three times; also Germany WWI Iron Cross Second Class; dozens of letters from c1935 through to c1947 relating to Gustav Weissflog of Leipzig who was residing in Sydney during WWII and was interned, these documents include various letters sent to him at Tatura as well as letters to him from other internees at Camp 3, Rushworth, Victoria, also documents relating to his release. The trench art item with several chips, especially on edge, the Iron Cross with some rusting and poor ribbon, overall fine - very fine. (lot)

Documents include,
1) Inland Revenue Office, Leipzig - North, Clearance Certificate dated 14 July 1938 for Gustav Adolf Weissflog to take certain goods when he returns to Sydney, stamped with Third Reich Inland Revenue rubber stamp.
2) Australian Military Forces - Vic. L. of C. Area, No.1 Internment Camp, Tatura, 14 May 1945 giving instructions on release to five internees including Gustav Adolf Weissflog re travel by train via Murchinson East to Seymour and on to Sydney, with instructions to report to Deputy Director Security in Sydney. Signed personally by H.C.Schrader, Major, Commandant No.1 Internment Camp.
3) Order Revoking Restriction Order named to Gustav Adolf Weissflog and signed personally by S.H.Jackson, Deputy Director Security for New South Wales, 18 Aug 1945.
4) Three letters from the High Court of Australia relating to proposed charges against Gustav Adolf Weissflog under Trading With The Enemy Act 1939-40.
5) Letters to Weissflog at Tatura and in Sydney with some of these from other internees at Camp 3, Rushworth, Victoria, some with envelope bearing Camp Commandant's Approval stamp.
6) Numerous other letters and other documents to Gustav Adolf Weissflog from late 1930s through to late 1940s.

Gustav Adolf Weissflog, was born 30 October 1885 at Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. He was married to Josepha Maria Dorette Lina, born Fritsch, and their children were, Eva-Maria, Claus Gustav Adolf and Ruth Ursula. He arrived in Australia in 1906 and operated as a wool buyer from October 1906 until August 1914 when he was interned during WWI. In 1927 he received a visa from the British Consulate in Leipzig and returned to Australia, again operating as a wool buyer from May 1929. He made a return trip to Germany in 1938 and in September 1939 he was once again interned due to WWII.