no that's true about the Nazis, and I guess there aren't too many ballads comemorating John Wilkes Booth, lee Harvey Oswald.

Its largely a matter of luck, and how people perceive you. i remember talking to Barrie Roberts about this one night about 30 years back.

Barrie knew Keating's Bush Ballads pretty well and he was expounding on why some Australian bushrangers got sung about and some didn't. Barry said one of them (I think it was Morgan) got few songs because people thought he was a psychopath. And there was a shudder factor every time people though of him. Maybe that's how it is with the Nazis.

You could equally say about the same about the guys who got shot at Kilmainham. Pearse and Connolly and the guy who married Grace all got songs - But I can't think of many others. I guess it was because a lot of their work was secret in nature, whereas people could identify - either because Pearse and Connolly had public personas - and people could get to know them posthumously through their writing, or maybe because a lot of people get married and - and they could speculate what it would be like getting married in those circumstances. I suppose people want to identify with the condemned man. either for reasons of compassion, or maybe for reasons of a vicarious thrill.