"Jarmany calling - - Jarmany calling!!"
From the on-line edition of the English Daily and Sunday Express we have an update on the strange case of William Joyce - - better known to the world as "Lord Haw Haw"!
A case being re-opened [?] after over sixty years, William, deemed a traitor, found guilty in the aftermath of World War Two [WW2] - - and executed by the British.
William, undeniably with relish making a whole series of propaganda broadcasts for the Nazi - - William residing in Germany for the duration of the war.
These propaganda diatribes often bombastic and ridiculous in the extreme, but very grating and offensive to many of the English under bombardment by the Luftwaffe - - William a man who had much derisive scorn directed at him, hence the name "Lord Haw-Haw".
"a 'sneering, horrible voice… full of vindictive pleasure'”
The arrest, trial, conviction, execution of William Joyce AT THE TIME [1946] CONTROVERSIAL! The daughter [now age 82] desiring a vindication of her father, revelations from recently released documents suggestive that William was NOT [?] a traitor!
"SHOULD LORD HAW-HAW REALLY HAVE BEEN HANGED?"
William was deemed an American, an Englishman, a German? NONE of this is clear? How can that be? At the time, the thought was that according to old English law: "any person living under the protection of the King owes allegiance to the King!"
Listen at this web site to the "sign-on" of William as would have been heard in England at the time.
Obviously in the aftermath of the war, a lot of folks had William on their mind, the English public, the authorities, etc. A lot of people wanted the head of William on a stick. They got the head in a noose, that much is certain.
More than anything else, the case of William Joyce is plain and simple: "you make a hard bed and you sleep on it!"
NO mercy for William then, and I doubt any now!
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The historian AJP Taylor made the point that Joyce was essentially hanged for making a false statement on a passport -- the usual penalty for which was a paltry fine of just two pounds.
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