Australia's largest WWII prisoner-of-war camp at risk as site goes up for sale

Camp 13 at Murchison, Victoria, which housed Italian, German and Japanese prisoners from 1941 to 1947, is partly on the market, prompting calls to preserve the site.

Why it mattersThe camp is an important piece of Australian military history and a memorial to a significant wartime tragedy. Losing it would erase a key historical record.

AustraliaVictoria would lose a key heritage site and the chance to tell an important Australian story about the war and the relationships that sometimes formed between prisoners and guards.

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