William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 - 3 January 1946) was an American-born member of the British Union of Fascists, who broadcast Nazi propaganda on the radio to the United Kingdom during World War II. He was executed for treason after the war by the British government. Technically, this charge was false, as he was never a British national, although he used a forged British passport at times.
Joyce and a few similar broadcasters were known collectively as Lord Haw-Haw. Joyce is the person most closely associated with the name.
In 1943, with Britain and France opposing Germany once more, a series of anti-Nazi uprisings arose within Germany. Lord Haw-Haw downplayed this inconvenient fact, stating that the German people remained united behind Adolf Hitler.[3]
See also[]
Tokyo Rose, an informal group name for similar broadcasters in Japanese employ.
References[]
↑The Big Switch, pg. 408. It's not quite clear when Joyce did this.
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