William Joyce
On the cold and damp morning of 3 January 1946 a large but orderly crowd had formed outside the grim Victorian prison in Wandsworth. The main gates of London’s largest gaol are situated not more than a few hundred feet from the far more salubrious surroundings of Wandsworth Common in South West London.
Some people had come to protest at what they considered an unjust conviction, while others, ghoulishly and morbidly, wanted to be as close as they could, to what would turn out to be, the execution of the last person to be convicted of treason in this country.
Wandsworth Prison
William Joyce had woken early that morning and although he ate no breakfast he drank a cup of tea. At one minute to nine, an hour later than initially planned, the Governor of Wandsworth Prison came to the condemned man’s cell to inform him that his time had come.
The walk to the adjacent execution chamber was but a few yards but there was just enough time for Joyce to look down at his badly trembling knees and smile. Albert Pierrepoint, the practiced and experienced hangman, said the last words that Joyce would ever hear: ‘I think we’d better have this on, you know’ and placed a hood over the condemned man’s head followed immediately by the noose of the hanging rope.
A few seconds later the executioner pulled a lever which automatically opened the trap door beneath Joyce’s feet. Almost instantaneously Joyce’s spinal cord was ripped apart between the second and third vertebrae and the man known throughout the country as Lord Haw-Haw, was dead.
The gates of HMP Wandsworth around the time of William Joyce's execution
At about the same time as the hangman pulled his deadly lever a group of smartly dressed men in winter coats stepped away from the main crowd outside the gates of the prison and behind some nearby bushes, almost surreptitiously, were seen to raise their right arms in the ‘Heil Hitler!’ salute.
At eight minutes past nine a prison officer came out and pinned an official announcement that the hanging of the traitor William Joyce had taken place. At 1pm the BBC Home Service reported the execution and read out the last, unrepentant pronouncement from the dead man;
In death, as in this life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war, and I defy the power of darkness which they represent. I warn the British people against the crushing imperialism of the Soviet Union. May Britain be great once again and in the hour of the greatest danger in the west may the Swastika be raised from the dust, crowned with the historic words ‘You have conquered nevertheless’. I am proud to die for my ideals; and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.
The official declaration of William Joyce's execution pinned on the gates of the prison
The official notice of execution being pinned on the gates of Wandsworth Prison
William Joyce had actually been born in Brooklyn, New York forty years previously to an English Protestant mother and an Irish Catholic father who had taken United States citizenship. A few years after the birth the family returned to Galway where William attended the Jesuit St Ignatius College from 1915 to 1921. William had always been precociously politically aware but both he and his father, rather unusually for Irish Catholics at the time, were both Unionists and openly supported British rule.
In fact Joyce later said that he had aided and ran with the infamous Black and Tans, the notoriously indisciplined and brutal British auxiliary force sent to Ireland after the First World War in an attempt to help put down Irish nationalism. Joyce actually became the target of an IRA assassination attempt in 1921 when he was just sixteen.
For his own safety William immediately left for England, and after a short stint in the British army (he was discharged when it was found he had lied about his age) he enrolled at Birkbeck College of the University of London where he gained a first but also developed an initial interest in Fascism.
In 1924, while stewarding a Conservative Party meeting at the Lambeth Baths in Battersea, a seventeen year old Joyce was attacked by an unprovoked gang in an adjacent alley-way and received a vicious and deep cut from a razor that sliced across his right cheek from behind the earlobe all the way to the corner of his mouth. After two weeks in hospital he was left with a terrible and disfiguring facial scar. Joyce was convinced that his attackers were ‘Jewish communists’ and the incident became a massive influence on the rest of his life.
The bandage was covering twenty six stiches, he remained in hospital for two weeks
In 1932 Joyce joined Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and within a couple of years he was promoted to the BUF’s director of propaganda and not long after appointed deputy leader. Joyce was a gifted speaker and for a while became the star of the British fascist movement. He was instrumental in moving the union towards overt anti-semitism – something of which Mosley had always been relatively uncomfortable.
Joyce’s career with the British Union of Fascists only lasted five years when, with membership plummeting, a devastated Joyce was sacked from his paid position in the party by Mosley in 1937.
William Joyce, on the far left, with Oswald Mosley in 1934
In late August 1939, shortly before war was declared and probably tipped off by a friend in MI5 that he was about to be arrested, Joyce and his wife Margaret fled to Germany. Joyce struggled to find employment until he met fellow former-Mosleyite Dorothy Eckersley who got him recruited immediately for radio announcements and script writing at German radio’s English service in Berlin.
Crucially this was at a time when his British passport was still valid (although born in New York and brought up in Ireland Joyce had lied about his nationality to obtain a British passport – complications and niceties such as proving one’s identity with a birth certificate weren’t needed at the time) ostensibly to accompany Mosley abroad in 1935.
Dorothy Eckersley
The infamous nickname of ‘Lord Haw Haw’, associated with William Joyce to this day, was coined by a Daily Express journalist called Jonah Barrington. It’s not widely known but the title was actually meant for someone else completely – almost certainly a man called Norman Baillie-Stewart who had been broadcasting in Germany from just before the war. The nickname referenced Baillie-Stewart’s exaggeratedly aristocratic way of speaking. Barrington had written:
A gent I’d like to meet is moaning periodically from Zeesen [the site in Germany of the English transmitter]. He speaks English of the haw-haw, dammit-get-out-of-my-way variety, and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation.
Norman Baillie-Stewart - the real Lord Haw Haw
Baillie-Stewart had already been convicted as a traitor by the United Kingdom for selling military secrets to Germany in the early thirties. He had the dubious distinction of being the last person in a long line of infamous people to have been imprisoned in the Tower of London for treason.
Late in 1939 when William Joyce had become the more prominent of the Nazi propaganda broadcasters, although at the time no one knew who he was, Barrington swapped the title over to Joyce.
Listening to Lord Haw Haw’s broadcasts (which famously always began with the words “Germany Calling, Germany Calling”) was officially discouraged, although incredibly about 60% of the population tuned in after the BBC news every night. The BBC’s output at the beginning of the war was said to have been exceedingly dreary (plus ca change) and the British public seemed to prefer being shocked rather than bored.
Lord Haw Haw’s over-the-top and sneering attacks on the British establishment were really enjoyed, but in an era of state censorship and restricted information, there was also a desire by listeners to hear what the other side was saying. At the start of the war, simply because there was more to brag about, the German news reports were considered, by some people, to contain slightly more truth than those of the BBC.
William and Margaret Joyce in Germany
As the tide turned in the latter stages of the war Joyce and his wife moved to Hamburg. On the 22nd April 1945 he wrote in his diary:
Has it all been worthwhile? I think not. National Socialism is a fine cause, but most of the Germans, not all, are bloody fools.
Eight days later, and on the very day that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in their Berlin Bunker, Joyce made his last drunken broadcast – the remains of his Irish accent can be heard through his slurring voice.
The actual microphone and a script used by Joyce for his German broadcasts
At the end of the war William and his wife Margaret fled to a town called Flensburg near the German/Denmark border and it was there, in a nearby wood, that Joyce was captured by two soldiers. They, like Joyce, were out looking for firewood. Joyce stopped to say hello and one of the soldiers asked “You wouldn’t by any chance be William Joyce, would you?”. To ‘prove’ otherwise, Joyce reached for his false passport and one of the soldiers, thinking he was reaching for a gun, shot him through the buttocks, leaving four wounds.
The arrest was utter poetic justice. The soldier who had shot the infamous broadcaster was called Geoffrey Perry, however, he had been born into a German jewish family as Hourst Pinschewer and had only arrived in England to escape from Hitler’s persecutions. So in the end a German Jew, who had become English had arrested an Irish/American who pretended to be English but had become German.
The Woods near the German/Denmark border where Joyce was shot and arrested
Margaret Joyce at her arrest in 1945
A well-guarded William Joyce after his arrest in Germany 1945
Back in London, he was charged at Bow Street Magistrates court and in the dock he quietly stated “I have heard the charge and take cognisance of it.” He was subsequently driven to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria and on arrival, he said “So this is Brixton.” “Yes,” retorted his guard, “not Belsen.”
The trial of William Joyce began on 17 september 1945 and for a short period of time, when his American nationality came to light, it seemed that he might be acquitted. “How could anyone be convicted of betraying a country that wasn’t his own?” It was argued. However, the Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, successfully argued that Joyce’s possession of a British passport (even if he had misrepresented himself to get it) entitled him to diplomatic protection in Germany and therefore he owed allegiance to the King at the time he started working for the Germans.
It was on this contrived technicality that Joyce was convicted of treason on 19th September 1945. The penalty of which, of course, was death.
Sir Hartley Shawcross, he later said that the trial of William Joyce was not one of which he was especially proud
A sizeable minority of the population were uncomfortable with the verdict mainly because of the nationality issue but also because he was alway seen as a bit of a joke-figure rather than someone trying to bring the country down. On Christmas day 1945 an accountant named Edgar Bray wrote to the King:
I know nothing about Joyce, and nothing about his Politics. I don’t know much about Law either, but I do know enough to be firmly convinced that we are proposing to hang Joyce for the crime of pretending to be an Englishman which crime, so far as I am aware, in no possible case carries a Capital penalty. It happens to be just our bad luck, that Joyce actually WAS an American, (and now IS a German subject), but that is no reason to hang him, because we are annoyed at our bad luck.
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.
Interior of Wandsworth Prison
A cell in Wandsworth Prison in the late 1940s
Albert Pierrepoint
Not long after Albert Pierrepoint’s expert execution and with the blood from Joyce’s scar, that had burst open during the hanging, still dripping onto a spreading red stain on the canvas floor, the body was taken to the prison mortuary. A coroner pronounced that the death was due to “injury to the brain and spinal cord, consequent upon judicial hanging”.
There were specific rules pertaining to the burial of executed prisoners at the time, and William Joyce’s body was treated as any other. True to the normal rules he was buried within the Wandsworth Prison walls, in an unmarked grave, and was allowed no mourners. The body was dumped in the middle of the night, literally unceremoniously, on top of the remains of another man, a murderer called Robert Blaine who had been hanged five days previously.
In total 135 people were hanged at Wandsworth Prison during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the final execution taking place when Henryk Niemasz was hanged on 8 September 1961 for murder of Mr and Mrs Buxton in Brixton.
Incidentally the gallows at Wandsworth were not dismantled until 1993, 29 years after the last execution in this country and 24 years after the death penalty was abolished for murder. Incidentally the death penalty still existed for treason until 1998.
The condemned cell is now used as a television room for prison officers.
Lord Haw Haw pontificating
Tags: execution, fascists, gaol, Germany, hanging, Ireland, Oswald Mosley, prison, traitor, treacherous, WW2
……..great piece,,,i am always reminded that at this time the only source of public information was the tabloid ; americans had better access to world news than anyone else and that was because we had more newspapers.
Radio news was in its infantcy until Edward R Murrow;and we have enoyed a generation of excellent independent radio and television news until it sadly became entertainment of opinions paid for by monsanto or big oil .
Great Britian had a class system; and Lord Haw Haw was speaking to the educated underclass in the end no one was listening and he paid the price
of giving service and comfort to the enemy
public information is now at the mercy of technology;
which can be turned off and on like a switch ;
and we can all tumble back into the dark age
willing to raise our arms in a salute over jobs and our bowl of soup
education and a free press are the backbones to democracy
Never once was prove given that William Joyce did commit an act of treason. And in his own admission the defence didn’t have much knowledge in law. Sadly deception is now too late for consideration and our governments haven’t been shy on calling on the Joyce family. 1970 the government asked our family to help with the new subs that never worked. Two hours later job done..
1990 Would you believe again but this time was more direct with two members of the Joyce family being deployed on the front line of the Gulf war. Four days later Job done
I hope our family never does get called on again because I never once has anyone said sorry for William Joyce or Thank you to other family members and to which I am ashamed to be considered British
ALTHOUGH I HAVE HEARD OF HIM I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM.HE
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To David Joyce, should he ever pay another visit to this page: I want to express my own regrets that William Joyce was one among many targeted by the Jew-infested, Jew-controlled political and judicial venues, not only in Britain, but in America, Canada, Australia and other ‘goyim’ nations. William is joined by a long list of martyrs who received the same Jewish penalty via the so called ‘Nuremberg trials’, where the majority of those deciding the guilt of the accused were Jews and if not Jews, then American or British, which means the German victims were condemned to death by their wartime enemies.
William probably knew that WWII was ignited by Poland who had colluded with Churchill to provoke Germany to retaliate to the Poles’ secretive attack, thereby granting Britain false cause for declaring war on Germany. William probably knew Hitler did not want war; that Hitler made many appeals to Britain to avert war, but that Jew-controlled Churchill insisted upon all out war in order to destroy all that Germany had accomplished in the global market under Hitler, so that Britain could regain economic supremacy, which it never did anyway.
One day, just as Jesus Christ has promised, every secret shall be exposed where ALL may see it, and that includes the vile machinations involved in the lynching of William Joyce. In the meantime, be proud of your noble kin, William Joyce. I am proud of him and grateful for the integrity he showed by standing with ‘foreigners’ he saw were being set-up by Jew-controlled Britain, France, Russia and America.
Hello everyone !! The reason why I am reading this today is because I followed a series of logical links from a BBC news item about the discovery of a copy of a letter dated 1404 from Princess The Fabulous Nastya Of All The Russias to The Chief Constable Of Dorset England begging for a stay of execution in the dire case of Jonathan Trippe who was a famous British Government Spy.
Lord haw haw is awesome
Fantastic piece! Many thanks for so many details of this Traitor!
The fact remains that both Joyce’s were traitors, and both should have been hung. During their time in Germany they must have seen or heard about many injustices committed by the Nazis on others, yet neither of them protested these acts, or disputed Hitler, Himmler and Goering personal vendettas, genocide/s, grudges and murders blatantly disguised as allowable acts of war?
Their allegiance was to the King and country, when they deserted England they then became open ACTIVE traitors, ‘English citizens’ working for the German Nazi regime, our enemies, who had recruited them both for it’s broadcasting service – solely because they were ‘English citizens’ and for no other reason, meaning English citizens who were willing and able to wave the flag for Germany, and England be damned.
David Joyce and the Joyce family should change their names and hide in shame over what their relation Wm Joyce did, people would respect them more if they openly admitted the man was an and out and out traitor, whom no living member of the Joyce family wishes to be ever associated with. A traitor to England, and himself and family.
Loyalty to a treasonous government is not patriotism. As Joyce warned, Britain lost the peace. As Roosevelt reminded Churchill when drafting the Atlantic Charter, the war was fought over the issue of Free Trade, and Roosevelt was not about to allow the survival of any empire, whether German or British. Joyce likewise had stated that the war was being fought to maitain international finance, as Germany was encroaching on markets from central Europe to South America via Barter, and had secured prosperity in the depths of world depression through the simple expedient of state credit. Surely enough years have now passed to admit with hindsight that Joyce and others such as Mosley were correct in their predictions?
For a greater understanding of the worldview and motives behind the Lord Haw Haw caricature, William Joyce’s book, Twilight Over England is well worth reading
http://diggerfortruth.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/william-joyce.pdf
As Albert Pierrepoint said in his biography / memoirs, he did NOT pull a lever. He pushed it down. The reason being that in pulling a lever up it could stick and jam, depressing it it could not. He released the brake and pushed it down. Always!!!
It is not the role of the ABC to act as Lord Haw Haw for the Abbott government. That is the job of the Murdoch Press.
Mmm,very interesting story.nothing changes in this country.look up Karen hude.good luck.
Great article : D
William Joyce remained the number one broadcaster in Berlin and his criticism never faded in its virulence continuing to blame war on “Jewish International Finance.” (And real history confirms Joyce was correct)
William was captured while going through a woods near Flensburg after the war; he received a bullet wound to the leg in the process. Joyce’s fate at the gallows was then merely a formality and so the JEWISH controlled British press whipped up all the hysteria they could reminding people that he was a snarling traitor. The British Government then passed the Treason Act 1945 THE DAY BEFORE Joyce was flown back to Britain.
Joyce was then confined in a death cell at London’s Wandsworth Prison. In the cell next door was John Amery, the son of a British lord and the man who had tried to form British expatriates and sympathetic British POW’s into a Freicorp TO FIGHT on the German side.
Joyce was executed five days AFTER John Amery on 3 January 1946. He was adamant and defiant to the end. He showed no emotion when confronted by allied propaganda and scenes from the work camps, blaming these deaths on starvation and disease CAUSED BY Allied bombing of German communication lines, NOT BECAUSE OF ANY EXTERMINATION POLICY TAKING PLACE. (Everyone witnessed these DEATHS which were occurring everywhere IN GERMANY and war-torn-Europe by the end of the war.)
From: http://www.heretical.com/British/joyce.html
Readers should note Ezra Pound was also singing the same tune about the dangers of Jewish International finance from his radio broadcasts in Italy. Read Ezra Pound Speaking: Radio Speeches of WWII.
http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/PoundRadiospeeches.pdf
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Absolutely astonishing – comments by individuals who virtually hero-worship Joyce, either because they are fanatical Irish Nationalists, rabid anti-Semites or simply hate the Brits.
Should never have been hanged, didn’t the British believe this man should have free speech.
Thank you, for this site!
Thanks for those positive comments.
Joyce was speeching for maybe the wrong site, is this a reason to hang him?
No. Its not what a christian believe in judgement. It was Rache!
For me he is one of the Martyrer. Never forgett him!
What happened to the scare on Joyce? there is no sign of it in the capture pics!
Also, I think the picture of the captured Joyce might be fake! not just because of the missing scare.
The soldier with the Lee-Enfield rifle looks very like a certain character actor from the UK TV show The Army Game also a popular Police series?
to what is the measure of a man that through own choice and free will did he submit false accounts to his place of birth. a free man, with free will fought with the black and tans of which churchill oversaw the deployment. the same free man with free will, did then default to Germany, who then swore allegiance NOT to Germany but to Hitler in order to fight the best war he could against the allied forces (including the home of his birth). i am not one who agrees with capital punishment, but this was the punishment of the time. he was convicted in a court of law which was fairly presided over, unlike those found guilty for treason within the nazi courts, such as Erwin Rommel trial etc.. He new the risks and he accepted them.
Joyce Williams’s death is another crime over the long list of shameful revenge of the English.
Long lists of crimes against innocent UK are not erased with tons of propaganda and distorted stories of the past
La muerte de Williams Joyce es otro crimen mas de la larga lista de venganzas vergonzosas de los ingleses.
Las largas listas de crimenes del Reino Unido contra inocentes no se borran con toneladas de propagandas y relatos tergiversados de lo pasado
i am unsure what Ricardo is talking about?? William Joyce was captured by a German, fighting for the allies as he tried to escape the country. he was tried and sentenced according to law. very different to how those sentenced to death by their biological disposition, religion, nationality, political views, greed, sexual orientation, etc, etc as those who faced German, japanese, and italian forces of time found. (over 6 million jews exterminated, fact)
Joyce only spoke one truth in his entire life, “The Germans are damned fools.” They willingly turned their nation over to a gang of criminals and became adoring henchmen. Britain and the U.S. also had Nazi movements, but they never got off the ground. Germans voted for Hitler in 1933, the same year that FDR entered the White House. He did nothing to stop lynching in the Confederate States of America, although the Rule of Law prevailed in most of the nation. There is the difference. Germans happily gave up the Rule of Law in favor of terror, cruelty, and inhumanity. Therein lies the story of WW II.
I am related to William Joyce -my Great grandmother and his Grandfather were brother and sister I believe – I remember my father telling me of how upset his grandmother was when he was hung but then as they say blood is thicker than water
Who gives a toss I don’t? Perhaps he thought hitler would conquer all! Foolish man! Maybe he had a French connection lol.
Local talk says that William Joyce was in fact buried in a churchyard in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire?
“Back in the day” while a country may promote “free speech,” along with such “freedom” is the obligation to exercise it responsibly. One, for example, isn’t given a blanket license to divulge national military secrets. There are also restrictions against committing slander. And I believe that shouting “FIRE” in a crowded auditorium is also prohibited. Any abuse of a “freedom” at the expense of the freedom of others is “frowned upon,” and if one commits such an abuse, one can expect to pay the price.
What Joyce did was nothing less than giving aid and comfort to the enemy of his country. I believe that is the definition of treason. I believe in most countries treason is punishable by death.
One can be anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-whatever, but when getting on a soapbox (or in the media) it’s prudent to responsibly watch what one says. Joyce abused his freedom to think and speak as he wished and in so doing risked his life. I don’t know what his motivation was. I don’t care. He willingly sided with the enemy (Germany) against England. Regardless of his intent, he made himself an enemy of England. All the deaths of allied soldiers as well as the deaths of civilians caused by his demoralizing efforts can never be erased.
Why is it that an enemy can get away with brutality (including torture and hideous methods of murder) committed for no other reason than that’s simply the way they “take care of business,” but when one of the “good guys” does something that some small segment of the population disagrees with, it raises people’s ire? Is it any wonder that terrorism is spreading? They’re allowed to commit atrocities, but nobody is allowed to do what’s necessary to stop them.
Sorry, but I for one believe Joyce got probably better than he deserved.
I ha ve read most of the responses and I remain convinced Joyce Nazi movement. The fact that he was not a British subject is mute in that he lied to obtain a British passport. Joyce made his allegiance known by joining the Oswald Mosley group after that failed went to Germany with the one aim in mind,help the Nazi party. Hanging was too good he should have been gassed I Belsen
I agree with Mr Alexander Joyce was the voice of Nazi Germany and a Traitor to all the Allies. Hanging was too good for him
William Joyce was right about MOST things! It was that svengali-warmonger Churchill who was the real traitor, sacrificing the Empire for his own ambitions concerning the destruction of the German Empire on the battlefield.
Had we listened to Joyce, Mosley et al, there would still be an empire, no deaths and, for that matter, no holocaust.
Read David Irving! Don’t believe the Internationalist Cultural Marxist propaganda!
I was a child (in England) during the second world war and I clearly remember my family listening to “Lord Haw Haw”. I remember his voice and that “Germany calling” opening to his talks to the Nation. I was too young to understand what he was talking about but I do remember he was ALWAYS regarded as a big joke. Everyone roared with laughter during his broadcasts and he was never taken seriously – well, not in my family at least!
I was a child (in England) during the second world war and I clearly remember my family listening to “Lord Haw Haw”. I remember his voice and that “Germany calling” opening to his talks to the Nation. I was too young to understand what he was talking about but I do remember he was ALWAYS regarded as a big joke. Everyone roared with laughter during his broadcasts and he was never taken seriously – well, not in my family at least!
Tahnk you for this article, very interesting. I have heard there was
a cousin of William Joyce in South Africa, named Sidney Robey Leibbrandt
who was (1943) sentenced to death and he came free 1948. Is there
anybody who know this case? Please let me know!
Thank you for a very informative article. I recently visited his grave and admire him for standing by his convictions. Unfortunately the negative comment are from the uneducated, which is always the case. History as they say is written by the victors, but either way this man was falsely tried and killed.
“I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why” – were the last words of this cynical nazi bastard. I hope he was happy with being hanged knowing why.
Lots of people are traitors.If you are on the winning side you will be fine. Although you try to convince your fellow man in what you believe in. William Joyce believed in what he was doing. No worse than Walter Lippmann for example. The list is endless the price is high if you nail your flag to the wrong mast.
Think Nuremberg and the US Presidents who are still floating around. Criminals all of them. Joyce a minor actor was made an example off.
Very well written great story!
I have to say there seems to be a miscarriage of justice here he lied to get a British passport in my mind that doesn’t make him British! he did after all take out German nationality.
I am from Myanmar (formerly Burma). We have been under British colonial rule as well as under Japanese fascism. So we are unbiased as to which is better: the allies or the fascists. This is because we hate both. But if you ask to choose us one, we would gladly be under British reign than inhumane fascism. So, british people who romanticize the likes of Lord Haw Haw, should bear in mind that Britain and Allies would be wiped from the face of the earth should the Axis Powers win. This is the fact that those of us from unbiased country see.
A fascinating story of a ghastly man who got what he deserved.
William Joyce was a two-time loser who played a very dangerous game,
and lost everything including his life. He is almost a forgotten figure these
days. Few people under 40 will have heard of him, if at all.
My Fathers location was announced by HawHaw during the war.Luckily he survived and I am here. H H gambled and lost his choice
How could Joyce be tried for treason when he was a German citizen, and had never been a British subject?
Executions make me sick.
Nice to know he was hanged for his behavior. It doesn’t matter what people say to try to cloud the facts. The result was proper.