How did Adolf Hitler view/See Ireland?

Just wondering: My Family’s Irish Roots. And WWII was way before my time? So basically; How did Hitler/Nazi Germany look at/view Ireland and Irish People? Did he “Like/Have Positive Thoughts” for Ireland? Did he “Hate/Had Negative opinions” about Ireland? Or maybe was he “neutral”?? Maybe he just Didn’t really care good or bad about Ireland?

 

Hitler saw Ireland from his back porch.
It appeared very small and far away so he didn't care about it. Whereas when he looked out his front window he could see Russia, just like Sarah Palin, and he got all hot for it.

Actually it was probably next on his list after the UK.

 

Lol!! Maybe should have specified, wasn’t asking how he could “Physically See the Country Ireland”: Was asking more what were his personal opinions/feelings towards Ireland? So “From his back porch” doesn’t specify if he saw them as good or bad people?

 

There was actually an attempt to attack Ireland by Germany. At the time though, Hitler needed to shift his focus to the Eastern Front and, after a few bombs were dropped on Ireland with no casualties, the plan to attack Ireland was abandoned.

But he did technically attack them, so I can't imagine he was a big fan of the Irish people.

 

I doubt he had much concern for them either way.
Had they been in the mix strategically maybe there would be some evidence to suggest something one way or the other.
If I recall, Ireland was too far away (out of luftwaffe range), which meant any attack would have seen the attacking navy subjected to naval and airborne resistance from Britain.
Not likely to be a success.
Also, Ireland was neutral during WWII and still is.
"Soft diplomacy" is their thing and it has worked on several occasions, largely unpublicised, due to it going on behind the scenes.
(For those who like the blunderbus approach it may be worth mentioning that in this context, 'soft' does not mean weak. It's actually quite powerful in diplomatic terms, because it's much easier to persuade someone to your viewpoint if you don't make them feel threatened. Ireland doesn't threaten anyone).

 

1) Ireland isn’t mentioned in Hitler’s second book (‘Zweites Buch’), written in 1928 and only published in 1961 (German) and 1962 (English). This text is shorter and more interesting than Mein Kampf.

https://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/ZweitesBuch_wch7.pdf

Ideas on international relations

Of all of Germany's potential enemies comprising the eventual Allies of World War II, Hitler ranked the U.S. as the most dangerous. By contrast, Hitler saw the United Kingdom as a fellow "Aryan" power that in exchange for Germany's renunciation of naval and colonial ambitions would ally itself with Germany. France, in Hitler's opinion, was rapidly "Negroizing" itself. In regard to the Soviet Union, Hitler dismissed the Russian people as being Slavic Untermenschen ("sub-humans") incapable of intelligent thought. Hitler consequently believed that the Russian people were ruled by what he regarded as a gang of bloodthirsty but inept Jewish revolutionaries.

United Kingdom

In Zweites Buch, Hitler called for an Anglo-German alliance based on political expediency as well as the notion that the two Germanic powers were natural allies. Hitler argued that the alleged British striving for a balance of power leading to an Anglo-German alliance would not conflict with his goal of Germany being the dominant continental power because it was wrong to believe that "England fought every hegemonic power immediately", but rather was prepared to accept dominant states whose aims were "obviously and purely continental in nature". Hitler went on to write that "Of course no one in Britain will conclude an alliance for the good of Germany, but only in the furtherance of British interests." Nonetheless, because Hitler believed that there was an ongoing struggle between the "Jewish invasion" and the "old British tradition" for the control of the United Kingdom, Hitler believed the chances for Anglo-German alliance to be good provided the "Jewish invasion" was resisted successfully. Hitler hedged somewhat, however, by claiming that:

The instincts of Anglo-Saxondom are still so sharp and alive that one cannot speak of a complete victory of Jewry, but rather, in part the latter is still forced to adjust its interests to those of the English. If the Jew were to triumph in England, English interests would recede into the background.... [But] if the Briton triumphs then a shift of England's attitude vis-à-vis Germany can still take place."

English publication history

A translation by Salvator Attanasio was published in 1962, as Hitler's Secret Book, with an introduction by Telford Taylor. A translation by Krista Smith was published in 2003, as Hitler's Second Book, edited by Gerhard Weinberg.

Hitlers Zweites Buch - Wikipedia​

2) There is no mention of Ireland in Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941-1944 either: Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

3) Some links:

Ireland in World War II: The Swastika vs. The Shamrock

Operation Green (Ireland) - Wikipedia

Irish neutrality during World War II - Wikipedia

The Emergency (Ireland) - Wikipedia

Bombing of Dublin in World War II - Wikipedia


Ireland and the Nazis: a troubled history

De Valera’s darkest hour: How Ireland dealt with the Nazi threat

How Ireland failed refugees from Nazi Germany