ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the non-Jewish right-wing displaced person groups that resettled in Australia in the post-war period. Following the displaced persons’ migration trajectory to Australia highlights the argument that fascist ideation could not only survive the war's end but could (continue to) be transnational and transcultural. Community and inter-community organisations such as the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and the Captive Nations movement, as well as the New South Wales Liberal Party's Migrant Advisory Council, were to provide safe havens for a problematic politics that was now publicly defined as anti-communist. The two case studies of the post-war Hungarist Movement and Croatian Ustasha are heavily reliant upon Australian security records and demonstrate how explicitly fascist ultranationalist organisations were given free rein in Australia until the late 1970s, when the domestic bombing campaign of the Croatian Ustasha forced legislative change. This chapter further examines how émigré fascisms merged with native Australian national socialism, culminating in the leadership by Hungarian Ferenc Molnár of the National Socialist Party of Australia (NSPA).
