Could a german have fled germany during the war with Hitler to migrate to Australia??

Question

After escaping through the Berlin wall? Would they have been able to ship to Australia? How long would this take

Answer 1

It would have been easier to have fled without Hitler  

Answer 2

I know one German who survived the concentration camps and arrived in Australia very soon after the end of the war.

Answer 3

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961, to prevent East Germans from fleeing into the west. That was sixteen years after WW2 had ended. Your knowledge of 20th century world history is severely lacking.

It's possible that Germans have fled to Australia, both during WW2 (probably early in the war) and during the Cold War, after escaping from East Germany, or leaving West Germany without being hindered. A trip by ship would probably have taken over a month.

Answer 4

Numbers of refugees, internees, and prisoners of war were transported to Australia from Britain, following fears that some of the enemy aliens might be spies or saboteurs, there were already German immigrants in Australia. The most notorious incident was the Dundera transport.

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/dnutting/...

Answer 5

Are you doing a what if Hitler didn't die?  I supposed it's possible he could have gotten to Australia, if that would have worked with his personality, but I don't think that would have fit his personality and character.  He was very big on the superiority of the germanic people.

After the war, several key n**i officers did escape Germany to South America - countries that were a little less involved in the whole World War thing and that didn't have extradition agreements.

Answer 6

If you're talking about Germans during WW2:

Yes they could possibly have fled to Australia, where they would have been set up in camps as an enemy alien (my aunt's farm actually had a shed where some German POW's were kept).

If they were Jewish, it's highly likely they would have been accepted as immigrants.  Not sure if this actually happened though.

If you're talking about East Germans escaping communism, then assuming they got into Western Europe they probably would have had no problem coming to Australia.

Answer 7

The Berlin Wall wasn't constructed during WW2.And WW2 involved most of Europe,Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East.

It would have been pretty difficult to escape.The northern parts of the Scandinavian countries would be a good place to go.

For the US,immigration would be a problem,and I doubt they'd take a German refugee.It would be really difficult getting all the way to Australia.

Answer 8

Hitler and his regime went down in 1945.  The Berlin wall was built by Communist East Germany in 1960 I think.  So your German would have to have used a time machine.

Theoretically, a German could have fled Germany in WWII by going to a neutral country, but easier said than done I think.

Before WWII, about 30,000 Germans (not Jews) chose to leave Germany.  Some of them must have ended up in Australia.

Answer 9

You seem to have a very confused view of history.

The Berlin Wall was much later than the Hitler war.

Any German who escaped from Germany during WW2 would have been interned as an enemy alien long before they got to Australia