"Ireland’s Secret WWII Bid to Team Up With Germany:" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Apr 2026 1:57 p.m. PST |
…Operation Dove
"But there is a far darker wartime story hiding in the background. During World War II, figures inside the IRA tried to build a covert relationship with Germany's military intelligence service, the Abwehr. It sounds like a conspiracy thriller, but it was real, and it ended with a failed U-boat mission called Operation Dove…"
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| Robert Burke | 11 Apr 2026 5:18 p.m. PST |
Your heading is misleading! The IRA was not the Irish government. Betweemn 70,000 and 100,000 Irishmen from the Irish Free State joined the British Army in WWII to fight the Nazis. |
| Tango01 | 11 Apr 2026 5:33 p.m. PST |
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 John the OFM  | 11 Apr 2026 5:51 p.m. PST |
Éamon deValera did send condolences to Germany when he heard that Hitler had died. 🙄
But then, he's the son of a bitch who ordered the assassination of Michael Collins. |
| AussieAndy | 11 Apr 2026 9:08 p.m. PST |
De Valera signed the condolence book at the German Embassy. They already knew about the death camps by then. I understand, however, that recent research indicates that Ireland did more to help the Allies than was previously thought. |
| Robert Burke | 12 Apr 2026 1:21 a.m. PST |
What proof do you have deValera ordered the assassination of Michael Collins? |
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