“Kampspiegel Wochenschrift” (Camp Mirror Weekly)
1918. Five stitch-bound softcover booklets with lineblock covers, 12 pages each, 22.8 x 17.7cm (approx. each). Slight foxing and discolouration, some issues with covers split from binding, minor tears or missing portions to some. Publication details include “vol. 2, nos. 43-45, 50–51.” The issues run from 3 Feb. to 31 March 1918. Each cover is illustrated with a lineblock by Carl Ritz, depicting a young internee overlooking Holsworthy Internment Camp in Liverpool, NSW. Ludwig Schroder published the weekly newspaper Kampspiegel Wochenschrift, which ran from April 1917. In April 1918 it was renamed Kampspiegel Monatshefte and ran monthly until late 1918. Australia interned almost 7000 people during WWI at Holsworthy, Berrima and Trial Bay (NSW) camps. Ref: AWM.
Item #CL198-72
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