Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English language Propaganda radio programme 'Germany Calling', broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain on the mediumwave station Radio Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. The programme started on 18 September 1939 and continued until April 30, 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army. The nickname generally refers to William Joyce, who was the German radio's most prominent English-language speaker, but several other speakers could sometimes be confused with him.
Through such broadcasts, the Nazi Third Reich attempted to discourage and demoralize British and American troops and the British population within radio listening range in the British isles, to suppress the effectiveness of the Allied war effort through propaganda, and to motivate the Allies to agree to peace terms leaving the Nazi regime intact and in power. Among many techniques used, the Nazi broadcasts prominently reported on the shooting down of Allied aircraft and the sinking of Allied ships, presenting discouraging reports of high losses and casualties among Allied forces. Although the broadcasts were widely known to be Nazi propaganda, they frequently offered the only details available from behind enemy lines concerning the fate of friends and relatives who did not return from bombing raids over Germany. As a result, Allied troops and civilians frequently listened to Lord Haw-Haw's broadcasts in spite of the sometimes infuriating content and frequent inaccuracies and exaggerations, in the hopes of learning clues about the fate of Allied troops and air crews.
The term "Lord Haw-Haw" was originally the nickname of James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a 19th century British general, and the man who led The Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. The pseudonymous radio critic Jonah Barrington of the Daily Express was the first to use the epithet to describe a German broadcaster, in an attempt to reduce his possible impact: "He speaks English of the haw-haw, dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety".[1] However, the history of the name is somewhat confused; it was actually applied to a number of different announcers. Even soon after Barrington coined the nickname, it was uncertain exactly which German broadcaster he was describing. Some people just used "Lord Haw-Haw" as a generic term to describe all English-language German broadcasters. Poor reception may have added to some people's difficulties distinguishing between broadcasters.
A number of announcers could have been Lord Haw-Haw:
Main article: William Joyce
After Joyce took over, Mitler was paired with the American-born announcer Mildred Gillars in the Axis Sally program and also broadcast to ANZAC forces in North Africa. Mitler survived the war and appeared on postwar German television. Joyce was captured by British forces in northern Germany just as the war ended, tried, and eventually hanged for treason on January 3, 1946. As an American citizen and naturalised German, Joyce could not have been convicted of treason against the Crown; however, the prosecution successfully argued on the basis of a technicality that having lied about his nationality to obtain a British passport and to vote, Joyce owed allegiance to the King.
The decision to hang him was made perhaps because of the fear his alleged omniscience had inspired. As J.A. Cole has written, "The British public would not have been surprised if, in that Flensburg wood, Haw-Haw had carried in his pocket a secret weapon capable of annihilating an armoured brigade."
Other British subjects willingly made propaganda broadcasts, including Raymond David Hughes, who broadcast on the German Radio Metropole, and John Amery, while others, such as P. G. Wodehouse, did so under coercion.
In the 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High, the unseen Lord Haw-Haw's voice was provided by an uncredited Barry Jones.
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) moved to Germany just a few days before war was declared. He did so because he was sympathetic to the German cause and because he had received a tip-off from a contact in MI5 that he would be arrested under emergency legislation as soon as war was declared.
Berlin betty William Joyce, 'Lord Haw Haw' British traitor, he was hanged after the war.
The most notorious traitor of them all similar to "Tokyo Rose." "Lord Haw-Haw",(the title came from his sneering voice,) he began regular work on German radio in Sept.1939 and he began his broadcasts with the phrase,"Jairmany calling, Jairmany calling." Joyce, son of an Irish-born naturalised American was taken to Ireland when he was three and later moved to England. While studying in London he discovered a taste for right-wing politics and a gift for oratory. He became propagander chief of Oswald Mosely's British Union of Fascists, and in order to go to the Nuremberg Rally in 1933,he got a British passport. On the application form he falsely gave Galway as his place of birth. It was a lie that was to hang Joyce, for it refuted his plea at his Old Bailey treason trial in 1945 that he was an American national but a naturalised German since1940.he did not deny being "Lord Haw-Haw" and was hanged.
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William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) moved to Germany just a few days before war was declared. He did so because he was sympathetic to the German cause and because he had received a tip-off from a contact in MI5 that he would be arrested under emergency legislation as soon as war was declared.
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she was the equivalent of Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw but she was in Italy. A husky low-pitched voice that was supposed to seduce the Allied troops to surrender.
By bombing British cities and Lord Haw Haw's radio broadcasts from Berlin.
Berlin betty William Joyce, 'Lord Haw Haw' British traitor, he was hanged after the war.
I imagine you are referring to Lord Haw-Haw, as the British referred to William Joyce, who broadcast in English on behalf of the Germans in an effort to undermine the morale of the British population during the Second World War.
William Joyce was born in New York to Irish parents who returned to Ireland when he was still young and he spent the rest of his boyhood there before moving to London.
Let Jezzietree play there! Haw-haw-haw!
To plot against the monarchy, or the Government, is classed as an act of treason. 'Lord Haw-Haw' was the nickname of the wartime traitor William Joyce, who committed an act of treason by broadcasting Nazis propaganda to Britain from Germany, during the second World War.
Brian Haw's birth name is Brian William Haw.
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