‘High Standard of Efficiency and Steadiness’: Papua New Guinea Native Police Guards and Japanese War Criminals, 1945–53

Drawing largely on archival records, this paper examines the Australian use of a detachment from the Native police force to guard the Australian war criminals’ compounds for Japanese war criminals established at Rabaul and Manus Island, both in the Territory of New Guinea, from 1945 to 1953. Austral...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Boyd, James, Morris, Narrelle
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26819