Currently reading/watching:
Ireland's postwar welcome for Nazi war criminals: it looks like Ireland wasn't as judgemental towards the worst Nazi criminals and murderers, as it is towards modern Israel.
Reversed psychology?
"Dublin Nazi No.1. The life of Adolf Mahr", a biography by Gerry Mullins. The extraordinary life of Dr Adolf Mahr, who was head of the National Museum of Ireland and also the head of the Nazi Party in Ireland.
"Ireland's Nazis" (Cathal O'Shannon)
Winner of the Globe Gold Award (Documentary section) at the Intermedia World Media Festival in Hamburg, 2007. Royal Air Force (RAF) veteran Cathal O'Shannon (1928-2011) uncover the truth about the war criminals and collaborators who found refuge in Ireland from the Catholic Church and officials in the years after World War 2.
"Cathal O'Shannon begins with an investigation into the Notorious Andrija Artukovic, Nazi Minister of the Interior in Croatia and the man responsible for the deaths of over 1,000,000 men, women and children in concentration camps. His time in Ireland was shrouded in mystery, as the Department of Foreign Affairs refused to release the file on this man.
The "Butcher of the Balkans" found sanctuary in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar in 1947 and was a regular attendee at mass at the local Catholic church."
"In 1959 Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favorite Nazi commando, famous for rescuing Mussolini, the Italian fascist leader, from an Italian hilltop fortress, and known as "the most dangerous man in Europe," became an Irish farmer."
(www.finfacts-blog.com)
Photo 4 Ireland's Nazis documentary, Irish Independent
Photo 6 History Ireland
Photo 8 The Films Ltd