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There were complicating issues though. It wasn't

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as easy as it seemed or sounded. German citizens

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and residents were mercilessly randomly attacked

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with the mumps during puberty from the early

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1800s. Lunatics cut a swathe through Germany

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every year infecting anyone who looked puberty

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age at random like a roving mob. Including citizens

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of nations part of the defunct kingdom of Prussian

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that were outside of Germany. One of the motives

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was Prussian owning nothing in Germany when it

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existed until permanently defunct in 1941. It

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caused Germany to have massive adult infertility

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issues in the 18 and 1900s. including from WW1

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right through to WW2. There was a huge demand

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for babies for adoption by citizens and residents

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of Germany as a result. In fertile couples, victims

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of the puberty infection rampages, looking to

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adopt children. In the 1900s it coincided with

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another illegal phenomenon. Baby thefts from

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residents of the state of Victoria, Australia

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between World War I and World War II. The infants

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were stolen at birth, or shortly after birth,

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by the thousands. All stolen from Port Phillip

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Bayside suburbs like Sitkilda and Brighton. Those

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suburbs had huge numbers of small unit sized

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birthing hospitals. It was a very sensible and

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somewhat traditionally fashionable place to have

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children. It was particularly popular amongst

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couples from what is now called Gippsland. Also

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Ballarat, Bendigo, West Victoria and the Murray

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region. Mostly Gippsland and the then locals

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though. I won't mince words here. The phenomenon

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was caused by dirty money funded to two particular

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now AFL clubs. Money from Canada for the most

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part. They funded one team who paid another to

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do the dirty work. Violence against new mothers

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who made complaints was not unusual in some cases.

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People still pretend to brag about their parents

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and grandparents beating or kicking women who

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complained that all but one baby was missing

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after having a multiple birth. The stolen babies

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were immediately offered to anyone who wanted

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to leave with one as immediately as possible.

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Including on boats and then planes. As long as

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they weren't staying in the Bayside region. Any

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leftovers were then shipped to what is now the

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state of Tasmania, usually. The Tasmanians then

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did the basics for the stolen children. They

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weren't being Good Samaritan types at all. Even

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if they tried to fake it. They weren't happy

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about it. They didn't want to do it in bulk,

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really. They agreed, though. So, they muttered

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and swore, complaining about how many babies

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they had to feed, change nappies for, and put

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up with. The Tasmanians did what they agreed

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to do. Then picked from the huge bunch of stolen

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children. Like picking one type of chocolate

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out of boxes of chocolates when deciding which

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ones they wanted to keep and raise themselves.

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The rest were dumped in foreign countries for

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possible adoption in hordes. The biggest demand

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going around between World War I and World War

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II was Germany, due to its difficulties with

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extremely high rates of adult infertility. Most

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of the unchosen, stolen children ended up there,

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mysteriously filling an almost constant need.

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The Tasmanians involved always tried to convince

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the ones they kept themselves and the ones dumped

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in Germany and other places that they were Tasmanians,

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even indigenous Tasmanians, first, before keeping

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them or dumping them for adoption. They weren't

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Tasmanians at all. They were all Victorians,

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particularly indigenous to Gippsland. Also, Ballarat

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and Bendigo, etc. The second biggest category

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was locals to Port Phillip Bayside areas. Mostly

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indigenous Gippslanders, to be frank. Those families

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killed in a mass genocide by the neo -Nazis between

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December 1943 and mid -1945 had quite a lot of

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adopted children around at the time. And some

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that were the intergenerational descendants of

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stolen children adopted by German citizens and

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residents. Quite a few survivors of World War

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II amongst the rest. That bizarre extra connection

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between Germany and places like Gippsland that

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cannot be explained by my Hohenzollern royal

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family being part Gippslander since at least

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the 1790s via Princess Louise, also the Queen

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of Prussian. She was originally from the old

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city of Jeregen in what is now Gippsland before

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emigrating to Meckelburg -Strelitz as a child.

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She married future Kaiser Frederick Wilhelm III,

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also the future King of Prussian at the time.

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They were both homosexual and just got on really

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well intellectually. No sex involved, obviously.

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Those people who think they are or their ancestors

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were Tasmanians are wrong. They can get on okay

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until they try to talk about being Tasmanians.

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Then it becomes a difficult process as they are

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just plain wrong. They are part Gippslander,

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etc. Part Victoria, Australia. Tasmanian's connection

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excuses that they were once Burinong living in

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what is now Gippsland 2 in its southwest before

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mass emigrating to Tasmania of their own accord

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and decision thousands of years ago doesn't get

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them out of it. Yarielu and Gunakonai are the

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two remaining cultural indigenous groups in Gippsland.

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Yarielu has been rarely mentioned since the arson

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riot in 1858 caused 1 .5 million people to become

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homeless in Gippsland. And since the Yarra River

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was named as a memorial to the old city of Yarragan

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in Gippsland. It is cobblestones that are over

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500 years old from the old city of Yarragan,

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lining the banks of the river in some places.

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All that very Gippsland -looking north shape.

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Using the cultural term Yarielu to describe one

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of the two Gippsland indigenous cultural groups

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has not been banned, officially or unofficially.

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There is nothing wrong with mentioning it. People

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who claim it being mentioned is not allowed have

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got it very wrong, regardless of the excuse.