Had a gawk on Google Earth there. Nothing eagle-like about it i’m afraid.

Herman. Goering took cyanide in Nuremberg during his trial. Where did you get this nonsense about dying in Dublin Castle?

Maybe Goering did, but who’s talking about him?
Herman Goertz took poison in Dublin castle in 1947 when he heard he was to be deported.
It’s even in the linked Irish Times article.

Think they allowed Jewish boys though..

One of the people featured in that doc is a my neighbour. Nice guy, he was an explosives expert for the waffen ss, but he doesn’t see himself as a Nazi, he is a flemish nationalist!

I think that that programme was named that to get attention. Of the people they talked about in the programme only one was a member of the Nazi party, the others were nationalist far right people who had mixed success in trying to get the Nazis to recognise/work with them. Folen was a Flemish nationalist while the other guy was a Breton one. The SS did have ‘international’ brigades which are an inconvenient truth to many European countries (and movements) today but most of these people were not members of the Nazi party. So calling the programme ‘Ireland’s Nazis’ was a bit far from the truth.

It is true that the Government refused to accept Jewish assylum seekers during the war out of some inward looking xenophobia (there was only a small Jewish population in Ireland at the tme so most Irish people had no concept of Jewish faith, culture etc) but I am also under the impression that one or two people in the then Department of External Affairs were actually anti-semites.

The most famous example of former Nazis ending up here, was Albert Folens (he was Belgian). He did ten years porridge for collaboration.

Anyone who passed through an Irish school will know the name.

My apologies to the lads above, I didn’t read their comments properly.

Well 200 turned up for Goertz funeral with their nazi badges and all in 1947.

Possible, but unlikely. Joyce was US born, and met a hard end in a British prison shortly after the war. Less charitable people than me would say he got what he deserved.