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Ireland's Schindler?

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  • #32
    WhatNowForUs?
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    goose2005 wrote: »
    I think he's claiming that persons of itinerant address will melt it down?

    I think he inferred that it would be stolen, he did not mention by any persuasion of people so you are just stirring unless he decides to clarify himself, in which I don't think he needs to.


  • #33
    Riddle101
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    So he became friends with the Gestapo commander who tried to have him killed? Wow, don't think i'd be as forgiving tbh.


  • #34
    I Heart Internet
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    donegal__road wrote: »
    Ironically, it was also the Vatican that facilitated safe passage for fleeing Nazi's to Argentina, Bolivia and other countries in what became known as the Nazi 'Ratlines'.

    A Vatican bishop by the name of Hudal managed to secure many Nazi fugitives with International Red Cross passports, one the Nazi's managed to reach Genoa from Germany.

    Hugh O'Flaherty and his colleagues weren't "the Vatican", although some of them did work there and he lived there. There were members of the RCC who did great things and cowardly things during that period. Many priests died in concentration camps. One notable example:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe


  • #35
    gobnaitolunacy
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    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    I think 197th was suggesting some toe-rags would steal it for scrap...as is their wont. He might have a point there...depending on where in Killarney they put it.

    There was another piece of public art that was torn off its pedestal a few years ago about 15 mins from Killarney, granted it was in a stretch of road with no houses so an 'easy' job at night.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/metal-thefts-sculptures-and-artefacts-stolen-around-ireland-508334-Aug2012/

    http://kerryseyephotosales.photoshelter.com/image/I0000OExm2Yz5hkg


  • #36
    donegal__road
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    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    Hugh O'Flaherty and his colleagues weren't "the Vatican", although some of them did work there and he lived there. There were members of the RCC who did great things and cowardly things during that period. Many priests died in concentration camps. One notable example:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

    I should have said 'it was through the Vatican..'

    I wasn't trying to rise a row, I was just watching this film a few months ago and thought it would be of interest to the thread.

    Hugh O'Flaherty did great work and rightly should be remembered as a hero.


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  • #37
    I Heart Internet
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    donegal__road wrote: »
    I should have said 'it was through the Vatican..'

    I wasn't trying to rise a row, I was just watching this film a few months ago and thought it would be of interest to the thread.

    Hugh O'Flaherty did great work and rightly should be remembered as a hero.

    Sorry for being nit-picky DR. I think there's a lot still to emerge about the Vatican's role, for better or worse, during that period. The good guys definetly deserve to be recognised though, as you say.


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