Why did Germany bomb Dublin in 1941?

Seloth

walrusgumble wrote:

i thought it was meant to be liverpool.

It could have been I'm not sure.

I was reading up and Hitler actualy had plans to invade Ireland but only by invitation.Since the British planned on Invading us again during the war Hitler planned to send us weaponry and such to fight them so I don't think they would have Bombed us on Purpose.

ballsofire23

There was no need to have the Irish part of the plan. The irish were meaningless to the Germans. Absolutely no use. At all. I
I would have assuemd if he invaded Ireland, he would have gased you. Because the Irish would not have been classed as anything to continue.

Zebra3

Mick86 wrote:

All English cities were blacked out, Irish cities weren't. The fact that he could see Dublin should have indicated he wasn't over his intended target. The Irish government treated as an accident because to do otherwise would mean having to take action.

As posted above, I was always lead to believe that all Irish cities were blacked out as well, to avoid giving either side an idea of their whereabouts.

Aedh Baclamh

ballsofire23 wrote:

There was no need to have the Irish part of the plan. The irish were meaningless to the Germans. Absolutely no use. At all. I
I would have assuemd if he invaded Ireland, he would have gased you. Because the Irish would not have been classed as anything to continue.

Post of the year anyone?

Seloth

ballsofire23 wrote:

There was no need to have the Irish part of the plan. The irish were meaningless to the Germans. Absolutely no use. At all. I
I would have assuemd if he invaded Ireland, he would have gased you. Because the Irish would not have been classed as anything to continue.

You should real check things up before posting.

Read this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Green_(Ireland)

TerrorFirmer

They found the Guerilla campaign the Irish had 'defeated' the British with quite fascinating. Although the British may have been bad during the War of Independance, I doubt warfare would have lasted long in Ireland, even of the guerilla type, given the unpreceedented brutalness of the Germans in retaliating to such attacks.

Erin Go Brath

ballsofire23 wrote:

I would have assuemd if he invaded Ireland, he would have gased you. Because the Irish would not have been classed as anything to continue.

Oh really! Dont know where your from Ballsofire23, just keep up the xenophobic comments, and see how far it gets you :rolleyes:

Zambia

I doubt the germans bombed dublin over a Few Fire Engines

Chances are it was a mistake, there would be no way of estabilishing for certain.

Nice to know the Ireland can be Bombed and a apology will suffice. Personnally I think even if De-Valera was informed off every aspect of Hitlers war he would not have joined in the war effort.

As for the return of the 6 counties for joining the war I could not see it happening but it would have at least given two sides of the island a shared enemy.

Victor

Erin Go Brath wrote:

Oh really! Dont know where your from Ballsofire23, just keep up the xenophobic comments, and see how far it gets you :rolleyes:

Um, the Nazis considered the Irish untermenschen.

Smushbush

we helped the british in northern ireland when the bombed it....maybe thats why?

Capt'n Midnight

Victor wrote:

Um, the Nazis considered the Irish untermenschen.

do tell..