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Originally Posted by ILoveYourVibes
Please just stop.
They guided the luftwaffe to help them bomb belfast.
900 people died.
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The Luftwaffe needed no help from the IRA to bomb Belfast. They had maps, reconnaissance and Y Gerat to aid them with that job perfectly fine.
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Originally Posted by ILoveYourVibes
Belfast was crucial to allied forces as it was key in manufacturing weapons for the allies in the war effort.
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I've studied the war for decades. My father was in the Royal Engineers during it and my mother was an evacuee from Guernsey. Both of them were furnishing me with reading material since I was a child. You don't ever have to feel the need to try and tell me anything to do with WWII.
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Originally Posted by ILoveYourVibes
Absolutely there was a meeting of the minds. This is an absolute fact its undeniable.
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No. There wasn't and the historical record stands against you.
When the Nazi's came to power in 1933, the IRA wrote about them in very disparaging terms, condemning it as a "Fascist state" and saying that the Nazi's had created a "collection of human chattels at the disposal of tyrants." They were highly critical of the likes of Dachau, which was being used to persecute German Socialists and felt that Hitler had coerced the German people wrongly.
During the Spanish Civil War, the IRA sent men to fight in the International Brigades on the side that fought
against German and Fascist interests in that country.
But, during the Second World War, there was a change of approach regarding the IRA and the Germans, who ended up becoming strange bedfellows, primarily based on their mutual enemy, the British. But to characterise this relationship as something akin to lockstep agreement is a falsehood. This support of Germany was wholly contradictory to their previous stance not met with universal approval from their few thousand strong membership, leading to many adopting an "enemy of my enemy" stance and contenting themselves to receiving the free military aid the required to fight Britain.