I recommend you read up about the Dunera Boys and whom they were. Without their contributions, Australian society would have been very much the poorer. They were, afterall, Asylum Seekers who the British refused entry to and shipped them off to Australia - where we interred them. They were musicians, academics, philosophers:
[Source]Among the transportees on the Dunera were Franz Stampfl, later the athletics coach to the four-minute-mile runner Roger Bannister, Wolf Klaphake, the inventor of synthetic camphor, the tenor Erich Liffmann, composer Ray Martin (orchestra leader),[6] artists Heinz Henghes, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack and Erwin Fabian, art historians Franz Phillipp and Ernst Kitzinger, artist Johannes Koelz, the photographers Henry Talbot and Hans Axel, author Ulrich Boschwitz (who wrote under the pen name John Grane),[7] and furniture designers Fred Lowen and Ernst Roedeck. Also on board were theoretical physicist Hans Buchdahl and his engineer (later philosopher) brother Gerd; research scientest F. W. Eirich [8]; philosophers Kurt Baier and Peter Herbst;[9] economist Fred Gruen; Bert Stern, the father of economist Sir Nicholas Stern who made a pilgrimage to Hay to see the camp; Alexander Gordon (Abrascha Gorbulski) who appeared in the documentary Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport; Walter Freud grandson of Sigmund Freud; Engineering Professor at Imperial College, Paul Eisenklam; Professor Hugo Wolfsohn, a prominent political scientist.[10]; and Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, a German-born Jew who served as the chief interpreter for the American prosecution at the Nuremberg trials.
Britain's loss, our gain, even if the circumstances were not the best.
