William Joyce
Overview
William Joyce nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw
Lord Haw-Haw
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 medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States...

, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda
Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the NSDAP in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany...

 broadcaster to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 during the Second World War. He was hanged for treason
High treason in the United Kingdom
Under the law of the United Kingdom, high treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Crown. Offences constituting high treason include plotting the murder of the sovereign; having sexual intercourse with the sovereign's consort, with his eldest unmarried daughter, or with the wife of the heir to the...

 by the British as a result of his wartime activities, even though he had renounced his British nationality and become a naturalised German. His British nationality was obtained by fraud, as he had lied about his place of birth on his application for a British
United Kingdom
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 passport.
Discussions
Quotations

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman (Penguin Books, 1987), p. 43

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Benito Mussolini|Mussolini or Adolf Hitler|Hitler.

Frederic Mullally, Fascism inside England (Claud Morris Books, 1946), p. 15

I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.

National Socialism Now, pamphlet issued by the National Socialist League c. 1938

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

National Socialism Now

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

Catchphrase used to introduce or begin his talks on German radio.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Winston Churchill|Churchill to peace from Hitler.

Broadcast, Radio Bremen, 2 August 1940

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

Twilight over England

 
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