Irish Spanish Civil War Veterans

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Irish Spanish Civil War veterans who gave their limbs to save Europe from communism. Additionally, there was also a Waffen-SS Irish Brigade, which according to historian Robert Best, was said to be composed of around 400 men.

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Eoin O'Duffy (1892–1944) was a skilled political activist, soldier, and political leader

Eoin O’Duffy (1892–1944) was a skilled political activist, soldier, and political leader. In 1923, he aligned himself with the political organization Cumann na nGaedheal (‘Society of the Gaels’) and became the leader of The Irish National Socialist ‘Blue Shirts’. Many Irish were eager supporters of Germany in WWII. In June 1940 when Germany occupied the British Channel Islands around 800 Irish laborers were to be found there. Asked to either go home or work for the Germans, nearly all of them ch…