Re: Missing the main event
Purple said "Dev had many faults but his high standing within the Jewish community both before and after the war speaks for itself."
This comment would be funny if it was not such a serious topic. The Jews literally begged for their lives to be let in here, and Dev' government refused in practically all cases.... what makes you think he had a high standing in the Jewish community ? Which itself was hunted / burnt out of Limerick in the thirties for example.
Quote by Purple " Remember that the full story of what was happening in Nazi occupied Europe was not known at the time" Everyone, including the 120,000 men from Ireland who volunteered from North and South knew about Hitlers invasion of his neighbouring countries, and Jews were being badly treated in the Germany of the late thirties.
By the time Dev signed the book of condolences for Hitler some of the Nazi concentration camps like Auchwitz had been liberated a matter of months, had they not.