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= Mark Aarons = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mark Aarons (born 25 December 1951) is an Australian journalist and author. He was a political adviser to NSW Premier Bob Carr.

Aarons was born in Newcastle, New South Wales but was brought up in Sydney. He was educated at Fairfield Boys High School and North Sydney Boys High School.

He is the son of the late Laurie Aarons, former secretary of the Communist Party of Australia. Mark Aarons was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1969 to 1978, and a Young Communist organiser in 1977.

Mark Aarons' activism started at North Sydney Boys High School in the mid-1960s especially in organising students to protest the Vietnam War. His 1986 ABC radio documentary series ‘Nazis in Australia’ prompted the Hawke government’s inquiry into war criminals and formation of Special Investigations Unit.

Mark Aarons was an investigative reporter for the ABC Radio National, and acted as founding executive producer of Background Briefing.

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 * 1Books
 * 2Articles
 * Mark Aarons
 * 3References
 * 4External links

Books[edit]

 * The Family File, Melbourne: Black Inc., 2010.
 * War Criminals Welcome: Australia, a Sanctuary for War Criminals Since 1945, Melbourne: Black Inc., 2001
 * The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People, with John Loftus, St. Martin's Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-312-15648-0
 * Ratlines: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets, with John Loftus, William Heinemann, 1991 (US edition: Unholy Trinity: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets, with John Loftus, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992). 372 pages.

Reception
Some critics perceived Aarons’ investigative reports as an attempt to rewrite his family’s history. As a family believed to have contributed heavily to the Communist movement in Australia, an exoneration of any guilt would have done their reputation wonders. Aarons attempted to do this by transferring the blame to former members of the Australian Senate, such as Arthur Gietzelt and Bruce Childs.

Other critics ignored that facet of Aarons’ books and focused on the bombshells he dropped. He was perceived to be a proper investigative journalist, who shone light on the immoralities of the Vatican in the years following the second World War.

There was little room to disagree with the fact that Mark Aarons tried to lessen the severity that his family’s being involved with the CPA held, but the revelations he provided on the Vatican’s involvement with the hiding of Nazi war criminals was astounding.

References[edit]

 * 1) Jump up ^ Dynasties: Mark Aarons. Retrieved on 28 April 2011
 * 2) Jump up ^ NSBHS HSC 1969
 * 3) Jump up ^ Excerpt from page 104 of A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Resistance, Volume I by John Percy: “........... Alan Tomlinson, one of the more conservative students in HSSAWV, who went to the same school as Mark Aarons, North Sydney Boys High, and .......” (This is accessible on internet)

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 * Dynasties – program on Aarons and his family history broadcast in January 2006
 * 1951 births
 * Living people
 * Australian non-fiction writers
 * Australian people of German-Jewish descent
 * Jewish Australian writers
 * People educated at North Sydney Boys High School
 * People from Newcastle, New South Wales
 * Journalists from New South Wales
 * Writers from New South Wales
 * Australian writer stubs
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