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Billy Scanlan

Nazi spy who lived a double life in rural Ireland even had a picture of Hitler on his wall

Fact always has potential to be stranger than fiction – and the story of a Nazi professor living in the Donegal Gaeltacht is a prime example.

It sounds like the stuff of hammed-up wartime fiction, so unlikely it stretches credibility beyond its limits.

But a new documentary is set to tell the story of how a rumoured spy settled in the small village of Teileann – with a picture of Hitler himself hanging on his wall.

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