The widow of a Belgian man who resettled in Ireland after World War II wants to stop the Irish national broadcaster from airing a 1987 interview with her husband as part of a documentary on Nazi fugitives in Ireland. Juliette Folens, wife of the late Albert Folens, a former member of the SS-affiliated Flemish Legion, says “Ireland’s Nazis” wrongly imputes that her husband was a member of both the Nazi party and the Gestapo in Belgium.
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