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Masquerade - Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor (Hardcover)
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Masquerade - Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor (Hardcover)
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Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O'Mara. Ráisín Ná 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.
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