Hacker Cinema
The Brylcreem Boys
1996 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Terence Ryan
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
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My grandfather was a British pilot interned in an Irish camp during WW2. They weren't allowed to return home / escape (they'd be sent back after crossing the sea), but they were given "day passes" to leave the camp pretty much every day. Despite officially being a prisoner he had a motorcycle in a nearby town and there are quite a few photos of him riding around.
Before he died he was consulted by some producers for a (pretty bad) movie based on the subject - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brylcreem_Boys