Daniel Kruger

Mr. Kruger will analyze the full extent of German WWII activities in Ireland and describe the supporting roles played by the Irish civilian population, Irish government, and Irish subversive groups. He argues that the prevailing public mood in Ireland was favorable enough to the German cause to permit sustained German espionage activity in the country. Mr. Kruger hopes to show that that members of the Irish government - working with the head of the illegal and subversive Irish Republican Army (IRA) - secretly contacted and sheltered Hermann Goertz, a covert German operative in the country, for a period of over a year. He will also MI5 sources to put forward a more complete picture of German cooperation with the IRA, and the motivations for this relationship.