Aboriginal solidarity after Kristallnacht

On 6 December 1938, after word of the antisemitic pogrom by the Nazis known as the "Kristallnacht" began to reach Australia,

Aboriginal people held a protest against it.

A dozen men and women of the Australian Aborigines’ League,

led by 78-year-old William Cooper, of the Yorta Yorta people,

marched to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a letter to Dr. Drechsler,

Consul General to the Third Reich, stating:

"On behalf of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, we wish to have it registered and on record that we protest wholeheartedly at the cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government in Germany.

We plead that you would make it known to your government and its military leaders that this cruel persecution of their fellow citizens must be brought to an end."

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