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For many years the Australian and New Zealand governments denied that any of their servicemen had been sent to Terezin, but after several years of campaigns the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke established a committee of investigation in 1987 which eventually ordered $ 10, 000 compensation payments to the surviving veterans.

Australian journalist Paul Rea produced the 1985 film Where Death Wears a Smile which made sensational allegations about the supposed murder of dozens of Allied prisoners at Terezin.

These claims have been refuted by one of the veterans, Alexander McClelland, in his book The Answer-Justice.