Department of Justice feared communists in Ireland would target film’s screening
Olympia Theatre: the viewing became so controversial that the theatre owners were warned not to keep the film there overnightNazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl’s notorious film Triumph of the Will was already controversial when it was released in 1935.
Instead, it was taken under Garda escort from the theatre back to the German Legation where it remained overnight before being screened on Sunday, October 27th in front of a crowd of about 200 people. A second film, Hitlerjunge Quex, was also shown. State Papers: Eight things we learned, from details of Boris Yeltsin’s Shannon no-show to JFK’s ‘happiest’ daysDFA helped Irish people find family in Australia in days before online communicationDepartment of Justice files in the National Archives reveal that gardaí feared sommunists in Ireland would target the film’s screening.
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