The Answer – Justice. An Australian Prisoner of War and Witness in The Small Fortress Terezin Concentration Camp in 1945

Amongst the first in Australia to volunteer in 1939 to fight Nazism, Alex McClelland saw action with the 211 Infantry Battalion in Libya, Greece and Crete. He was wounded and held as a Prisoner of War in Germany for four years. During the last three months of his captivity he was incarcerated in the Small Fortress, the top security section of Terezin Concentration Camp. In England, immediately after the War and prior to his departure for Australia, he was incarcerated in Chatham Detention Barracks for 28 days solitary confinement. On his return to Australia in 1970, after many years in the Bahamas, he found to his dismay that his periods of detention in both the Small Fortress and Chatham Barracks were missing from his official army records. No-one would believe his story of his detention. Everyone went by the official Army records. He faced the choice of entering a mental institution in Australia, or ‘exile’ in the UK and Greece. Choosing the latter Alex McClelland’s fight for justice began. He finally received official recognition that his army records were wrong, an apology and compensation, in 1988. Having achieved justice for himself he sought justice for others. Supplementing his own experience with years of research, he believes it is now time for Justice, not only for the Jewish people, but for Germans and Palestinians too.First Edition. Note: ISBN number in book may be incorrect. Light crease top r.h. cnr of covers. Conspiracy Theory. pp. 375 Illustrated 190316