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Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor
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by Mark M. Hull, Vera Moynes
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Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor
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by Mark M. Hull, Vera Moynes
Mark M. Hull
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Overview
Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor during World War II, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James’s story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the most important events of the twentieth century. James’s life—both real and imagined—makes for an incredible but true story. By altering her identity to suit the situation, James manipulated almost everyone she encountered: the German intelligence service, the Nazi propaganda broadcasting service, British intelligence, and various Irish cultural groups. She was in a liaison with Irish writer Francis Stuart and, with him, provided a voice for Nazi radio programs aimed at neutral Ireland, served as the pseudo-Irish expert for German espionage missions, and participated in the failed, almost comical effort to recruit Irish prisoners of war to join the Nazis against Great Britain—quite a series of performances, considering her only contact with Ireland had been a weeklong visit in 1937. Immediately after the war, James was wanted by British intelligence as a “renegade” (traitor), but her case was quickly squelched by the British government. Drawing on an assumed wartime persona, she became fluent in Irish Gaelic and organized a number of conferences for which she won grants from the Irish government. James garnered wider attention in 1992 with her autobiography, published in Gaelic, in which she claimed that the Holocaust was a myth—a belief she maintained until her death in 2013. In documenting James’s life of deception, Hull and Moynes masterfully analyze how an intellectually gifted child turned traitor to her country and convincingly rebranded herself as an Irish patriot and intellectual, while denying historical reality. The story of Rosaleen James reminds us that reality may be much less—or more—than what meets the eye and ear.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780806156347 |
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Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
Publication date: | 05/18/2017 |
Pages: | 216 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Mark M. Hull, Associate Professor of Military History at the U.S Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an attorney, and the author of Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939–1945.
Vera Moynes is a historian and archivist with the National Archives of Ireland.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
1 Point of Origin 10
2 Little Girl Lost 13
3 Rosaleen Abroad 20
4 Der Krieg 37
5 Francis Stuart 41
6 Best Laid Plans 51
7 Life in the Heart of the Reich 58
8 Publishing in Berlin: Irische Freiheitskämpfer and a Government Memorandum 70
9 Radio Star 76
10 Collapse 92
11 Defense of the Realm 95
12 1945 to 1977: The Theater, a Playschool, and a Museum in the West 102
13 Letters from Europe, 1977-1982, and In Search of Irish Saints 113
14 Accessory after the Fact 128
Conclusion 146
Notes 155
Bibliography 183
Index 195
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