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William Joyce
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British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)
Key facts
- Born
- William Brooke Joyce , ( 1906-04-24 ) 24 April 1906, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- 3 January 1946 (1946-01-03) (aged 39), Wandsworth Prison , London, England
- Resting place
- Bohermore Cemetery , Galway, Ireland, 53°16′53″N 9°02′18″W / 53.28141°N 9.038341°W / 53.28141; -9.038341
- Other name
- Lord Haw-Haw
- Citizenship
- United States (1906–1946) Germany (1940–1946)
- Education
- Birkbeck College, London
- Known for
- Broadcasting German propaganda in World War II
- Political party
- British Fascists , British Union of Fascists , National Socialist League
- Criminal status
- Executed by hanging
- Conviction
- High treason
- Criminal penalty
- Death
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Brooke
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- HM Prison Wandsworth
- Occupation
- radio personality
- Educated at
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Political party
- National Socialist League
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- British Army
- Image
- The Capture of William Joyce, Germany, 1945 BU6910.jpg
- Convicted of
- high treason
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- Commons category
- William Joyce
- date of birth
- 1906-01-01
- date of death
- 1946-01-03
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- name in native language
- William Brooke Joyce
- nickname
- Lord Haw-Haw
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Encyclopedic overview
William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce became a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1932, before finally moving to Germany at the outset of the war where he took Nazi German citizenship in 1940.
After his capture, Joyce, who had been issued a British passport when he lived in England after misstating his nationality, was convicted in the United Kingdom of high treason in 1945 and sentenced to death. The Court of Appeal and the House of Lords both upheld his conviction. He was hanged in Wandsworth Prison by Albert Pierrepoint on 3 January 1946, making him the most recent person executed for treason in the United Kingdom.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Joyce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.