Other Post Irelands Nazis

[BrassMonkey]

Found this on another website and thought it would be interesting to read your opinions

There were up to 75 Germans and Austrian Nazi Party members here led by archaeologist Adolf Mahr, who was appointed director of the National Museum in 1934.
Historian David O'Donoghue has researched Mahr's activities in Ireland and his later work for a Nazi propaganda radio service beaming broadcasts here from Germany during the war.
Dr O'Donoghue told the Herald how Mahr pressured Germans and Austrians in Ireland to join the Nazi party during the 1930s.
The German legation at 58 Northumberland Road supplied Mahr with reports of their comings and goings.
Disturbingly, the Nazis also had an accurate figure of 4,000 Jews living in Ireland, which were included in Nazi plans for the extermination of the Jewish race in Europe.

an excerpt from http://www.herald.ie/news/how-irela...themselves-in-the-civil-service-31183418.html

 

[Bombardier]

found these facts disturbing

IRELAND was home to a thriving branch of the German Nazi party in the 1930s, including a number of members who held positions in the Civil Service.

Disturbingly, the Nazis also had an accurate figure of 4,000 Jews living in Ireland, which were included in Nazi plans for the extermination of the Jewish race in Europe.

The Irish leadership of the IRA collaborated with the Nazis during the war, passing on intelligence about the movement of British troops in Northern Ireland, said O'Donoghue.

 

[snapper]

They were dangerously close to the UK during the war.

I know certain sections in Northern Ireland hate the British but really? jeopardising the safety of jews who had nothing to do with the then "Issues" between the IRA and the British to achieve their aims. Difficult to understand.

 

[Firefox]

Think you may have misunderstood the point of this article.
It suggests those involved were in fact Germans and Austrians living in Ireland, not the Irish.

The Irish leadership of the IRA collaborated with the Nazis during the war, passing on intelligence about the movement of British troops in Northern Ireland, said O'Donoghue.

So it is obvious that the IRA had some dealings with them , but not with any intent or malice towards the jews, just the British.
IMHO

 

[Connaught Ranger]

As with many nations of the period post WW1 up to 1936ish there was a tendency to see the "positive" aspects of Mussolini's Fascism and Adolf Hitlers Fascism, the activity of Oswold Moseley's organisation in the U.K. for example and in Ireland the fledgling Irish "Blue Shirts" of the Fine Gale, The National Guard, popularly known as the Blueshirts, and originally the Army Comrades Association, a nationalist-conservative and covertly fascist movement led by Eoin O'Duffy, took up the task of defending Cumann na nGaedheal rallies from republican intimidation. When they planned a march on Dublin, de Valera banned the demonstration, fearing a repeat of Mussolini's infamous March on Rome.
As a result, Fine Gael–The United Ireland Party was founded as an independent party on 8 September 1933, following a merger of Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the National Guard. The merger brought together two strands of Irish nationalism namely the pro-treaty wing of revolutionary Sinn Féin and the old Home Rule party represented by Dillon and the Centre Party. In reality, the new party was a larger version of Cumann na nGaedheal, the party created in 1923 by the Pro-Treaty leaders of the Irish Free State under W. T. Cosgrave.
Members from both sides of the divide took active part in the Spanish Civil war - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Brigade_(Spanish_Civil_War)
During the Emergency period there was a close eye kept by the Irish Military Intelligence service on those with a pro-German stance and all attempts by the Nazis to infiltrate spy's into Ireland with orders to get into Northern Ireland or across to the u.k. came to naught, most being caught and turned hours if not days after landing on Irish soil by air or sea.

The Irish Interlude: German Intelligence in Ireland

The Irish Interlude: German Intelligence in Ireland

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