Frank Can you explain your interest in this matter?
Can I ask also was the Irish Government in the second world war pro German and anti Jewish?
Lef, the war has always been of interest, plus as I've been to Poland 3 times in the last year, its something I wanted to understand better. Our own history books at school were very skimpy on details regarding Poland itself and the relatively huge jewish population.
Ireland didn't cover itself in glory during WWII in many peoples eyes, but you have to remember, it fought a war of independence against Britian and civil war just 15yrs before and they didn't want to become involved with Britain at any level during the war.
There was tacit co-operation though with Britain....but very reluctantly....as for how they interacted with Germany, I am not wholly sure; certainly during WWI the germans supplied arms to the Irish to fight the british....the understanding was, "any enemy of britains was our friend"....!!!...that was how it was percieved at the time
As I have stated 10s of thousands did volunteer to fight in British forces throughout the war, including two of my uncles.