The Story of William Joyce ('Lord Haw-Haw')

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The Story of William Joyce ('Lord Haw-Haw')



The Story of William Joyce ('Lord Haw-Haw')

William Joyce, also known as "Lord Haw-Haw", was a long-time resident of the UK, with fascist sympathies, who fled to Germany shortly before World War II began, and who spent the entire war making pro-Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts aimed at the British public.
Joyce was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1906, to an Irish-American father and an English mother. When he was 3 years old, the family moved to the UK. While in college, he became interested in the fascist movement and joined the British Fascisti Ltd, a group which admired the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. In the early 1930s he joined the British Union of Fascists, a group whose members considered Adolph Hitler to be their hero. In 1937 he left the BUF and formed the British National Socialist League. This group had a membership of only about 20, but the members were very vocal, holding street-corner meetings which often ended in fist-fights. Joyce was very aggressive and never shrunk from confrontation. He made no effort to hide his admiration for Adolph Hitler and his belief that most of the world's problems were the fault of Jews and international finance.
At the end of August, 1939, only a week before the war began, Joyce was secretly warned that, once the war had begun, the British government was planning, under emergency war powers, to apprehend him and to hold him in captivity for the duration of the war. To avoid this, he secretly fled to Germany and was immediately welcomed by the Propaganda Ministry of Joseph Goebbels. Within three weeks he began doing weekly propaganda radio broadcasts to the UK, which continued until the end of the war. He was given the nickname "Lord Haw-Haw" by a British journalist because of his aristocratic nasal drawl, partially caused by a broken nose he received as a child which was never set properly.
It was illegal to listen to his broadcasts in the UK, but, in spite of that,

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