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Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English language propaganda radio programme 'Germany Calling', international broadcasting by Nazi Germany 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. (The man who led The Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.) The pseudonymous radio critic Jonah Barrington (journalist) 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".Farndale, Nigel. Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, 2005 (ISBN 0-333-98992-9) 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:

• Wolf Mitler was a German national with a British education who spoke as the caricature of an upper-class Englishman. His persona was described by some listeners as similar to P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster. Most people who have examined the issue have concluded that it was probably Mitler whose voice Barrington described. Under Mitler, the program reached its greatest popularity in Britain and Ireland, with over six million listeners.

• Norman Baillie-Stewart was a former officer of the Seaforth Highlanders who was Military discharge for selling secrets to Germany. He worked as a broadcaster for the Germans for a short time in 1939. He was jailed for five years by the British after the war. For a time he claimed that he was the original Lord Haw-Haw. He did have an upper-class accent, which supported his original claim; however, he later came around to the view that it was probably Mitler whose voice Barrington had heard.

• Eduard Dietze, a broadcaster of mixed German-British-Hungarian family background, is another possible, but less likely candidate for the original Lord Haw-Haw.

• William Joyce replaced Mitler in 1939. Joyce was American-born and raised in Ireland. Although a Catholic, as a teenager he informed on the Irish Republican Army rebels to the British forces during the Anglo-Irish War. He was also formerly a senior member of the British Union of Fascists, and fled England when tipped off about his planned internment on August 26, 1939. He was the main German 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 pronunciation of "Jairmany calling, Jairmany calling" which can be described as a "nasal drawl," may have been the result of a broken nose.

After Joyce took over, Mitler was paired with the American-born announcer Mildred Gillars in the Axis Sally program and also broadcast to Australian and New Zealand Army Corps 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 hanging 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 (actor).

See also

• Francis Stuart
• Tokyo Rose
• Axis Sally
• Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, aka Baghdad Bob and Comical Ali
• Hanoi Hannah
• Seoul City Sue
• Azzam the American
• Jihad Johnny
• Stuttgart traitor
• Jean Hérold-Paquis
• Mother Night

References

• Cole, J.A. Lord Haw-Haw & William Joyce: The Full Story (New York, 1965)
• Kenny, Mary Lord Haw-Haw

External links

• Summary and MP3 Audio of an April 1945 broadcast excerpt by Lord Haw-Haw, from an Imperial War Museum website
• Secret files released on Lord Haw Haw's wife, from a November 2000 CNN article
• My father and Lord Haw Haw, a February 2005 story from The Guardian
• Article on Lord Haw Haw by Sefton Delmer The British Wartime Propaganda Chief,
• "The Making of a Traitor"
• "The voice of treason"
• Archive of Lord Haw-Haw broadcasts at Earth Station 1

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