Why De Valera got a bum rap on being pro-Nazi because of U.S Ambassador

DeValera did his job well...as did some other wartime leaders

I hope they were not olive trees in Palestine we know what the IDF do with them.

Excerpt from Prime Minister Eamon DeValera's response to Churchill criticism (May 16, 1945) "Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul? Mr. Churchill is justly proud of his nation's perseverance against heavy odds. But we in this island are still prouder of our people's perseverance for freedom through all the centuries. We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged our selves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished."

The evidence also shows that Dublin was actively co operating with London. However having read this it does lead me to wonder if Dublin was co operating with London and seperately co operating with Washington but neither of those allies seems to be aware of it isn't it just as likely that DeValera was doing the exact same thing with the Germans which matches the popular view that he was apparently co operative with all sides without giving anyone anything of real strategic value. The evidence of this is slim but Dublin was certainly aware of pretty much all the agents from everyone who were in the country and was keeping tabs on them.

He wrote about “the memories and the ghosts that are here” in his historic official residence and on the basis of that you think he actually believed he was communing with ghosts? Come on.

Didn't Churchhill offer Devalera an end to partition if Ireland came in on the side of the Allies?

OK I am not an expert on this era but with what I know could easily guess that De Valera would not be looking to the British ( who would have shot him if not for the US citizenship) for friends or help...so it wouldn't be hard to think that he would give the Germans as least a good, hopeful looking over.

Dev's daddy was a jew who served england and his people well.

More revisionist pap!

Devalera must have done something right. No matter what those people who hate him say. The Jews named a forest after him in Isreal.

Really sending condolences to the Reichstag on the death of Hitler ? Issuing the German Stahl helm to the Free State Army in the 30s. ? His support for the blatantly anti semitic Maynooth Catechism (1951) ?

Our current minister for justice who happens to be Jewish, recently slammed "Dev" for visiting the German Embassy in Dublin to offer condolences on the death of Hitler, in Dev's capacity as Taoiseach PM. So much for having a feel for the delicacy of the behind the scenes work of the Irish government as the nation was moving away from the bigotry and religious hatred and military activity and double-dealings during talks for independence with Ireland's negotiators, enemies of Mr Hitler's axis, and their USA allies.