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Old November 15th, 2017 #1
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Default Indigenous Kristallnacht protest finally accepted

Indigenous Kristallnacht protest finally accepted

AN Aboriginal letter of protest to Nazi Germany against the horrors of Kristallnacht has finally been accepted by the German government 79 years after it was initially offered at the door of Melbourne’s German consulate in 1938.

Coming from a marginalised Indigenous community a world away from Europe, the petition organised by William Cooper, head of the Australian Aboriginal League (AAL) was the only known private protest in the world after the Nazi pogrom that shattered Germany and Austria’s Jewish communities on November 9-10, 1938.

The Aboriginal petition, brought by Cooper and AAL members to the door of the Nazi German consulate in Collins Street on December 6, 1938, condemned the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany”.

https://www.jewishnews.net.au/indige...accepted/71128
 
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