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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Struggle to Come to Terms with the Past
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'I was born in Sydney in 1985 and I grew up there with a vague sense of my German heritage and the silences around it. I knew my grandfather, Achim Muhlen-Schulte, had disappeared and I was aware of the mark his absence left on my family. I remember Anzac Days at school where I told my friends’ grandparents that my German grandfather had also served, and watching faces fall as they realised he did not fight for Australia. And I remember a scratchy, old, grey wool blanket amongst the family bed linen that I was told my grandfather had sent back from the war.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The La Trobe Journal no. 99 March 2017 11019260 2017 periodical issue

    'Edited by John Arnold, issue 99 of the La Trobe Journal has a biographical flavour, and includes articles on a range of individuals with a diversity of interests and experience.

    'Amongst those featured are explorer and linguist Alfred Howitt, and writers Marcus Clarke and Henry Lawson.

    'Less well-known figures include:

    James Miller Marshall, a visiting English artist resident in Victoria in the 1890s, seen through the eyes of Norman and Lionel Lindsay as boys

    Ina Higgins, garden designer and first wave feminist

    Allan McKay, publisher and proprietor of the Specialty Press

    Frederick Sinclaire, socialist, utilitarian minister and WWI anti-conscriptionist

    a German émigré family who returned to their homeland on the eve of WWII

    (Publication summary)

    2017
    pg. 108-123
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