"investigation, conducted shortly after Wodehouse's release from Germany, but published only after his death, found no evidence of treachery. Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to the Irish-American William Joyce, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain from Germany during the Second World War. The broadcasts opened with ""Germany calling, Germany calling"", spoken in an affected upper-class English accent. The same nickname was also applied to some other broadcasters of English language propaganda from Germany, but it is Joyce with whom the name is now overwhelmingly identified. There are various theories about its origin. The English language propaganda radio"
"(also known as Lord Haw Haw) stood accused of levying war against King George VI by travelling to Germany in the early months of World War II and taking up employment as a broadcaster of pro-Nazi propaganda to British radio audiences. He was awarded a personal commendation by Adolf Hitler in 1944 for his contribution to the German war effort. On his capture at the end of the war, Parliament rushed through the Treason Act 1945 to facilitate a trial that would have the same procedure as a trial for murder. Before the Act, a trial for treason short of"
"Haw Haw) at his trial for treason in 1945. He also defended the self-confessed traitor John Amery at his trial in November 1945. Both were convicted and executed. Gerald Osborne Slade Sir Gerald Osborne Slade (1891-1962), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Slade, was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales assigned to the King's Bench Division. Born on 14 October 1891, Gerald Slade was educated at Bedford School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1921, becoming a member of the Middle Temple and a member of One Brick Court Chambers. In"
"to Nazi Germany just before the war began to avoid arrest by British authorities and became a naturalised German citizen. He made propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis, becoming infamous under the nickname Lord Haw Haw. Captured by British forces in May 1945, he was tried for treason later that year. Although Joyce's defence argued that he was by birth American and thus not subject to being tried for treason, the prosecution successfully argued that Joyce's pre-war British passport meant that he was a subject of the British Crown and he was convicted. After his appeals failed, he was hanged at"
"lead role and directed by Justin Butcher. Brian Haw Brian William Haw (7 January 1949 – 18 June 2011) was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a peace camp in London's Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. He began the Parliament Square Peace Campaign before the 2001 United States attacks, and became a symbol of the anti-war movement over the policies of both the United Kingdom and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards he was voted Most"
"Brian Haw Brian William Haw (7 January 1949 – 18 June 2011) was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a peace camp in London's Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. He began the Parliament Square Peace Campaign before the 2001 United States attacks, and became a symbol of the anti-war movement over the policies of both the United Kingdom and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards he was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure. Haw died of cancer"
"October 1941 he took off from RAF Alconbury on his 37th operation flying a Wellington Mark Ic bomber (serial number ""Z8862"", squadron codes BL-B) to bomb factories in Duisburg but Kirby-Green's aircraft was shot down. All of the rest of the crew were killed and Kirby-Green became a prisoner of war. Percy Pickard flew down to break the news to his wife and said that he was sure that Kirby-Green would be a prisoner of war and then on 16 November 1941 William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw the American born Irish-British Nazi collaborator broadcasting from Berlin made specific reference to"
"the New Cemetery in Bohermore, Galway, Ireland. A Roman Catholic Tridentine Mass was celebrated at his reburial. Joyce had two daughters by his first wife, Hazel, who later married Oswald Mosley's bodyguard, Eric Piercey. One daughter, Heather Iandolo (formerly Piercey: stepfather's surname) has spoken publicly of her father. William Joyce William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born, Anglo-Irish Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He took German citizenship in 1940. He was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and sentenced"
"William Joyce William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born, Anglo-Irish Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He took German citizenship in 1940. He was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and sentenced to death. The Court of Appeal and the House of Lords upheld his conviction. He was hanged on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. (Theodore Schurch was hanged the following day, but for the crime of treachery"
"Wolf Mittler Wolf Mittler (1 January 1918 – 11 November 2002) was a German radio host and journalist, known as one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw. He became internationally known as Lord Haw-Haw on the English language propaganda radio programme Germany Calling, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain and the United States, during World War II. Mittler spoke nearly flawless English, as he had learnt it from his mother (who was born in Ireland to German parents) in childhood. During his career broadcasting for Germany Calling, Mittler was reported to find political"
"Norman Baillie-Stewart Norman Baillie-Stewart (15 January 1909 – 7 June 1966) was a British army officer known as The Officer in the Tower when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. An active sympathiser of Nazi Germany, he took part in German-produced propaganda broadcasts and is known as one of the men associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw. Baillie-Stewart's father was Lieutenant Colonel Cron Hope Baillie Wright, an officer in the British Indian Army who served in the 62nd Punjabis during the First World War. His mother was from a family with a long tradition of military service. Baillie-Stewart"
"Haw Haw), serial killer John Christie (1953), Sergeant Frederick Emmett-Dunne, and atom spy Klaus Fuchs. Curtis-Bennett pursued the truth in the Christie case as his client admitted more and more murders, despite it being injurious to his defence. Curtis-Bennett married Margaret Duncan in 1928, which marriage was dissolved in 1949. There were three children. He married Janet Farquhar in 1955, who killed herself in 1956. Curtis-Bennett died from asphyxiation after collapsing while highly intoxicated. He was discovered at his home in Courtfield Gardens, Earls Court, London, on 23 July 1956 Following medical evidence showing considerable liver damage, the coroner commented"
"radio Bayern 3. Wolf Mittler Wolf Mittler (1 January 1918 – 11 November 2002) was a German radio host and journalist, known as one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw. He became internationally known as Lord Haw-Haw on the English language propaganda radio programme Germany Calling, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain and the United States, during World War II. Mittler spoke nearly flawless English, as he had learnt it from his mother (who was born in Ireland to German parents) in childhood. During his career broadcasting for Germany Calling, Mittler was reported"
"in Berlin, where he had been receiving medical treatment. Haw was born in Wanstead Hospital, in Woodford Green, Essex a twin and the eldest of five. He grew up in neighbouring Barking and in Whitstable, Kent. His father, Robert William Haw (1925–1964), served as a sniper in the Reconnaissance Corps in the Second World War, and had been one of the first British soldiers to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He later worked as a railway clerk, and also worked in a betting office. He committed suicide by gassing himself when Haw was 13. Haw's mother was Iris Marie Haw"
"(née Hall). Haw's family were involved in an evangelical Christian church in Whitstable, which Haw joined when he was aged 11. Haw was apprenticed to a boat-builder from the age of 16 and then entered the Merchant Navy as a deckhand. He travelled widely before spending six months at evangelical college in Nottingham, after which he preached world peace. Haw visited Northern Ireland in 1970 during The Troubles, as well as the Killing Fields of Cambodia in 1989. Back in London, he worked as a removals man and as a carpenter. He married his wife Kay in Redbridge in June"
"the UK immediately after the outbreak of war, claiming that he would not be involved in aiding Britain's enemies. In the early stages of the Second World War he served as an ambulance driver, although before long his previous Nazi sympathies saw him detained under Defence Regulation 18B. He was the first one to identify Joyce as 'Lord Haw Haw' (the radio broadcaster's identity initially being a mystery) when his old university colleague the Marquess of Donegall, who was a journalist with the Daily Mail at the time, had Macnab listen to some recordings after he suspected that Joyce, rather"
"(Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino) and Axis Sally (Mildred Gillars) faced years of persecution after the war. England executed Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) for treason, in 1946. Again there can really be little in the way of an objective history of music in World War II. The historical context since the war, the revelations of the evils of the Axis regimes, and the ultimate victory of the consumer society foretold in the songs of the allies impose a context upon the events like viewing a star through the lens of a telescope. Role of music in World War II World"
"he was hiding on the fourth floor above a bar on the in Paris. Cole was shot and killed while trying to escape. He was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in Paris. Harold Cole Harold Cole (24 January 1906 – 8 January 1946), also known as Harry Cole or Paul Cole, was a British soldier, who assisted then betrayed many in the French Resistance to the Gestapo during World War II. His actions caused significant damage to the Allied cause and he has been described as ""the worst traitor of the war"". Cole was killed while resisting arrest by"
"Harold Cole Harold Cole (24 January 1906 – 8 January 1946), also known as Harry Cole or Paul Cole, was a British soldier, who assisted then betrayed many in the French Resistance to the Gestapo during World War II. His actions caused significant damage to the Allied cause and he has been described as ""the worst traitor of the war"". Cole was killed while resisting arrest by French police in Paris in January 1946. Cole was born in an East London slum. By the time he was a teenager he was a petty criminal committing burglary, embezzlement and cheque fraud."
"his children's future. He only left his makeshift campsite to attend court hearings, surviving on food brought by supporters. Support for Haw's protest came from former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn and activist/comedian Mark Thomas. Among the artwork displayed was a Banksy stencil of two soldiers painting over a peace sign and Leon Kuhn's anti-war political caricature ""3 Guilty Men"", which, together with Kuhn's ""The Proud Parents"", Mark Wallinger later displayed in his recreation at the Tate in 2007. He originally camped on the grass in Parliament Square, but the Greater London Authority took legal action to remove him, so"
"The Spaniard Juan Pujol García, better known as Codename Garbo, passed on misinformation to the Germans, hoping it would hasten the end of the Franco regime; he was recruited by the British as a double agent while in Lisbon. Conversely, William Colepaugh, an American traitor, was recruited as an agent by the Germans while his ship was in port in Lisbon – he was subsequently landed by U-boat in Maine before being captured. In 1941 John Beevor, the head of Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Lisbon, established an underground network with the aim of carrying out sabotage tasks in the"
"treason. On 3 January 1946 Pierrepoint hanged William Joyce, also known as Lord Haw-Haw, who had been given the death sentence for high treason, although it was questionable if he were a British citizen, and therefore subject to the charge. The following day Pierrepoint hanged Theodore Schurch, a British soldier who had been found guilty under the Treachery Act 1940. Joyce was the last person to be executed in Britain for treason; the death penalty for treason was abolished with the introduction of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Schurch was the last person to be hanged in Britain for"
"and fled England when tipped off about his planned internment on 26 August 1939. In October 1939, the Fascist newspaper Action identified ""one of the subsidiary announcers"" on German radio, ""with a marked nasal intonation"", as one of its former members and distanced itself from him as a ""renegade"", whose broadcasts were ""likely only to rouse the fighting ire of the average Briton."". In February 1940, the BBC noted that the Lord Haw-Haw of the early war days (possibly Mittler) was now rarely heard on the air and had been replaced by a new spokesman. Joyce was the main German"
"Leonard Arthur Hawes Major-General Leonard Arthur Hawes CBE DSO MC DL (22 July 1892 − 7 August 1986) was a senior officer in the British Army who was responsible for preparing the transport to France of the British Expeditionary Force at the outbreak of World War II. Leonard Arthur Hawes was born on 22 July 1892 in Throcking, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Hawes served in World War I during which he was wounded, mentioned in despatches, made CBE and awarded the DSO, the MC and the Order of the Crown"
"Wulf Schmidt Wulf Dietrich Christian Schmidt, later known as Harry Williamson (7 December 1911 – 19 October 1992) was a Danish citizen who during the Second World War became a double agent working for Britain against Nazi Germany under the codename Tate. He was part of the Double Cross System, under which all German agents in Britain were controlled by MI5 (British counter-intelligence) and used to deceive Germany. Nigel West singled him out as ""one of the seven spies who changed the world."" Schmidt was sent to Britain by the Abwehr in September 1940, landing by parachute. He was captured"
"broadcaster in English for most of the war, and became a naturalised German citizen; he is usually regarded as Lord Haw-Haw, even though he was probably not the person to whom the term originally referred. He had a peculiar hybrid accent that was not of the conventional upper class variety. His distinctive nasal pronunciation of ""Germany calling, Germany calling"" may have been the result of a fight as a schoolboy that left him with a broken nose. Joyce, initially an anonymous broadcaster like the others, eventually revealed his real name to his listeners. The Germans actually capitalised on the fame"
"William Hawi William Amine Hawi (also written: William Haoui), – (September 5, 1908 – July 13, 1976), () was a Lebanese-American businessman and a leader and militia commander of the Kataeb Party () better known in English as the Phalange, a right-wing Christian political party in Lebanon. He was appointed Head of the second and Fourth Districts, President of the Recruitment Bureau, Head of the Department of Security, Sport and Mobilization on May 29, 1952, and member of the Political Bureau on July 12, 1952. On June 16, 1958, William Hawi was in charge of organizing and leading the activists"
"Hugh McAteer Hugh McAteer (; 1917 – June 1972) was a volunteer in, and leader of, the Irish Republican Army during their Northern Campaign, and later in 1950 and 1964 unsuccessfully contested for a seat in the British Pariament. A bookkeeper by profession, McAteer was from Derry. He served as IRA Chief of Staff from 1941 until 12 October 1942, when he was captured and arrested by the Royal Ulster Constabulary. He was later sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on the charge of treason. On 15 January 1943, along with three senior IRA men Patrick Donnelly, Ned Maguire and Jimmy"
"Hugh Lawson (British politician) Hugh McDowall Lawson (13 February 1912 – 23 March 1997) was a politician in the United Kingdom's short-lived Common Wealth Party, which was founded to contest parliamentary by-elections during World War II. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Skipton at a by-election in January 1944, then contested Harrow West in the 1945 general election, where he lost. Lawson later contested the Rushcliffe constituency in Nottinghamshire in 1950 for the Labour Party, but was not elected; he likewise was unsuccessful in standing for the King's Lynn seat in Norfolk"
"forces! Haw, Haw,"" a low-brow putdown obviously meant as a discouragement to the opposition. The ""Haw, Haw"" name reference was then applied to a number of different announcers and, even soon after Barrington coined the nickname, it was uncertain exactly which specific German broadcaster he was describing. Some British media and listeners just used ""Lord Haw-Haw"" as a generic term to describe all English-language German broadcasters, although other nicknames, like ""Sinister Sam"", were occasionally used by the BBC to distinguish between obviously different speakers. Poor reception may have contributed to some listeners' difficulties in distinguishing between broadcasters. In reference to"
"1948, and charged with 10 counts of treason, but only eight were presented at her trial, which began on January 25, 1949. The prosecution relied on the large number of her programs recorded by the Federal Communications Commission to demonstrate her active participation in propaganda activities against the United States. It was also shown that she had made an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler. She was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. ""Lord Haw-Haw"" was a pseudonym for William Joyce, German radio's most prominent English-language speaker. He hosted a propaganda show on a"
"On 25 May 2010 the day of the State Opening of Parliament for the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, Haw was arrested at 8:30 am. In September 2010 Haw was diagnosed with lung cancer. On 1 January 2011 he left England to receive treatment in Berlin. Haw, who was described as a chain smoker, continued to smoke cigarettes until his death. Haw died in Germany in the early hours of 18 June 2011 of lung cancer. He is survived by seven children. Reacting to news of Haw's death, Tony Benn said ""Brian Haw was a man of principle ... his"
"Arthur Owens Arthur Graham Owens, later known as Arthur Graham White (14 April 1899 – 24 December 1957), was a Welsh double agent for the Allies during the Second World War. He was working for MI5 while appearing to the Abwehr (the German intelligence agency) to be one of their agents. Owens was known to MI5 by the codename SNOW, which was chosen as it is a partial anagram of his last name. Owens ran a company that made batteries for ships. As such, he was a civilian contractor for the Royal Navy and also had regular contact with the"