IRELAND WAS HAVEN FOR NAZIS

Film documents Ireland as Nazi haven (JTA)
Ireland knowingly gave safe haven to some of the Nazi regime’s most notorious criminals and collaborators, according to a new film. “Ireland’s Nazis,” a television documentary produced by Irish state broadcaster RTE, focuses on a dozen Nazis who found refuge in Ireland. Among the refugees was Andrija Artukovic, the Croatian interior minister in whose concentration camps 1 million people died. Artukovic lived in a suburb of Dublin from 1947 to 1948. His past was unknown to his neighbors, but the Irish government kept a file on him, historian Cathal O’Shannon, the documentary’s maker, told the Sunday Times.

O’Shannon estimates 100 to 200 Nazis passed through or stayed in Ireland after the end of the war. Only 60 Jewish refugees were admitted to Ireland from 1933 to 1946, the time of their greatest need under Nazi persecution.