CELTIC FC & WORLD WAR II
February 12, 2008 - Daily Hun Newsdesk
In one of the most inglorious chapters of their long inglorious history, perhaps Celtic’s despicable role in trying to assist the nazis and fascists to victory in the dark years of 1939-45 was the most reprehensible.
It has been well recorded that Celtic groundsmen succesfully managed to turn on the huge floodlights during the height of the blackout and thus guide the Luftwaffe on their murderous mission of sowing mayhem and destruction.
There was also of course the notorious episode of the U-boat which sailed up the Clyde with a tricolour hanging from the turret while all the time the nazi mariners gave a lusty version of the Celtic song in German.
It is a well known fact that the young Adolf Hitler was also a fanatical Celtic supporter. Long before the concept of a season ticket holder came into existence, Hitler was a regular passenger on the Friday night Hamburg tramp steamer which got him into Glasgow just in time on Saturday afternoon for kick off.
“Hail! Hail!’ or “Heil! Heil!”? I think we are all bright enough to know that exposure to the Jungle on a regular basis had a disastrous effect on this impressionable young man. It’s no exaggeration to state that Celtic is inextricably linked with the outbreak of the second world war and the subsequent death of millions of people. But sadly, we hear none of this reported in contemporary sources.
Finally, Willy Maley and Jimmy McGrory were caught by MI5 using an illicit radio, transmitting messages to Germany in which they reported the movements of Royal Navy ships down the Clyde.But such was the influence of the Pope, that both men were admonished without charge. Has Scotland really changed?
By Billy Leckie
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