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To: Suzy Quzy

No, he had a fancy aristrocratic name. Can't remember his real name right now.


34 posted on 12/03/2006 8:06:56 AM PST by indcons
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To: indcons

Lord Haw-Haw was the name British listeners gave to William Joyce, a German radio propaganda broadcaster during World War II. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1906, Joyce moved with his English mother and Irish-American father to England in 1921. He joined the Nazi movement in England in the mid-'30s and fled to Germany just before war broke in 1939. He immediately became a broadcaster for Joseph Goebbel's Propaganda Ministry. His radio program reached England weekly from 1939 to 1945.

On the night of April 30, 1945, a drunken Joyce made his last broadcast from Hamburg as British troops entered the city. With his adopted world crashing down around him, but still committed to the Nazi cause, Joyce rambled on through his farewell speech. In Berlin, Hitler was simultaneously saying good-bye to his entourage in anticipation of ending his life a few hours later.

http://eyewitnesstohistory.com/vohawhaw.htm


45 posted on 12/03/2006 8:32:19 AM PST by sodpoodle (I have no idea how I got here - but I like it and I plan to stay.)
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To: indcons; Suzy Quzy
From Wikipedia:

Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of an announcer 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.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw

60 posted on 12/03/2006 9:55:54 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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