SPY HUNT IN EIRE
SEVEN GERMANS ARRESTED NUCLEUS OF POWERFUL GANG Rec. 10 p.m. DUBLIN, Apl. 15. Eire police have arrested seven German internees as the result of diplomatic pressure from the United States and France. Leading Eire detectives, including women officers who got into the Germans’ confidence, shadowed the Germans after their release, and learned so much that Mr de Valera was satisfied that a powerful Nazi organisation was being planned in Eire, upon which the Germans were rearrested. They were caught while in bed, and were taken to the Mountjoy prison wearing overcoats over their pyjamas. The authorities told the Germans that they would be flown to Germany today. but a habeas corpus application in the Dublin High Court is likely to delay their departure. The Germans include Dr Hermann Goertz, aged 56, a scar-faced lawyer and novelist, who served nearly four years in gaol for trying to map the Manston airfield, in Kent Goertz landed in Eire by parachute in May, 1940, and he was interned a year later The authorities freed all seven Germans in September, 1946, and told them they were liable to deportation at any time.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 5
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