These ‘enemy aliens’ sunbathing on Matiu (Somes Island) in Wellington Harbour during the Second World War may seem to be enjoying themselves. But as Charles Klingenstein, a German national, explains in this interview, conditions in the early years of the war were much less pleasant. Boredom was a constant problem.
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