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this website] London, Saturday, April 24, 2004 Letters reveal
Haw-Haw defiance By Michael
Evans AN EXTRAORDINARY series of
letters from William "Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce
have (sic) revealed that the wartime traitor
remained unrepentant as he awaited
execution. David
Irving comments: I AM not sure how undiscovered these
letters are. I remember reading a
Sunday Express series about thirty
years ago in which letters of William
Joyce were reproduced. They showed great
strength of character, and fearlessness in
the face of his adversaries. To his mother
on the day of his execution he wrote, I
recall: "I am not afraid of death. My
death will cause less pain to me than my
birth caused to you." And more in the same
vein. BBC Monitoring Reports
regularly transcribed Joyce's radio
broadcasts from Berlin. On the occasion of the
1945 British air
raid on Dresden he broadcast that
while the British were gloating that there
would not be much china left undestroyed
in the city that morning, they failed to
realize that what was at stake was more
than just the future of a few pieces of
porcelain. His style went down well
with the British working classes, and at
one time he had a listening audience of
millions in England. His fellow traitor in
Berlin was John Amery, son of
Churchill's schoolfriend and Cabinet
Minister Leo Amery. On trial for his life at
the Old Bailey in 1945, John Amery was
asked on the first day, Nov 28, 1945, how
he pleaded. He said: "Guilty, Your
Honour." Shocked, the judge put on the
black cap and sentenced him to death
immediately, and he was hanged a few days
later. His father was recently
outed by Prof William Rubinstein as
a secret Jew. Go figure that one.
Curious detail: In 1959, when I
was having my scurrilous London University
magazine Carnival Times produced, I
was given a tour of the London printing
work, Haycock Press, situated in London's
Bermondsey I think. A printer came up to me,
wiping his ink-stained hands on an
overall, and thrust out one paw to me. "Great Editorial,
David," he said. "Right stuff." He was Mr
Joyce, William's brother. Small
world. A reader suggests: "If
you want to download some programmes of
Lord Haw-Haw. go to http://www.winmx.com/
install
it and type in Lord Haw Haw in the
search bit." |
The letters, written by Joyce as he awaited
trial and then sentence in 1946 for broadcasting
Nazi propaganda during the Second World War, have
been discovered in an attic. In the last, dated December 28, 1945, just six
days before he was hanged, Joyce made it clear
there was no sense of repentance. He wrote from
Wandsworth prison: "The execution will take place at 9 am
on Thursday; and you can think of me at that
time as entering upon a triumph and of your
friend as carrying this friendship to the other
Bank (sic)." Joyce, who was dubbed Lord Haw Haw for his
broadcasts from Berlin which always began with the
words: "Germany calling", made his pro-Hitler,
anti-Semitic broadcasts throughout the war,
dismissing England's chances of resisting the
Nazis. His
German passport, sealed his fate in the British
Court His
diary: March 24, 1945 Website
note:
William Joyce was picked up by troops near the
Danish border on May 28, 1945, shot in the arm by a
soldier who believed he was trying to resist
arrest, and brought back to stand trial under the
ancient (1351) Treason Act. On
May 31 he told Captain William Scardon of
British Intelligence his reasons for going to help
Hitler. He had been impressed, he said, by the
constructive efforts of National Socialism and he
was horrified by the war. 'One of my dominant
beliefs was that a war between Britain and Germany
would be a tragedy,' he wrote, 'the effects of
which Britain and the British Empire would not
survive, and I considered that a grossly
disproportionate influence was exerted on British
policy by the Jews, who had their reasons for
hating National Socialist Germany.' He added,
'Whatever opinion may be formed at the present time
with regard to my conduct, I submit that the final
judgment cannot properly be passed until it is seen
whether Britain can win the peace.' At
Bow-street magistrates court in June 1945 he
claimed to have been born in New York to an
Irish-born naturalized American; but he was
committed for trial at the Old Bailey (Central
Criminal Court), found guilty, and hanged.
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Churchill
minister Leo Amery, author of Balfour
Declaration, concealed he was Jewish --
Jerusalem Post
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