'Nazi Dreamtime' is the story of extreme-right
ultra-nationalists in Australia before and during the Second World
War. Some native-born Australians were attracted to the ideology of
Nazism, believing it to be applicable to Australian political and
cultural life. They felt the 'German revolution' was a European
experiment that Australians ought to learn from, and to an extent
emulate.
These Nazi enthusiasts and their fellow travellers were
charitably described by one renegade amongst them as 'well-meaning
dreamers'. Their ranks included tourists, appeasers, political
agitators, propagandists, writers, poets, mystics, aesthetes,
academics, soldiers and outright cranks. Some were obscure figures;
others enjoyed a high public profile. Many thought that Aboriginal
concepts of dreaming could be merged with national-socialism to
form a 'blood-and-soil' white dreaming - a Nazi Dreamtime under the
Southern Cross. Berlin's aggressive foreign policy in the late
1930s failed to shake their faith, and even the war would not
dislodge some from Hitlerism. Only the defeat of Nazi Germany in
1945 terminated the dream that had become a nightmare, although the
idea still lingered.
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