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William Joyce, on 18 September 1939, and on other days between that day and 29 May 1945, being a person owing allegiance to our Lord the King, and while a war was being carried on by the German Realm against our King, did traitorously adhere to the King's enemies in Germany, by broadcasting propaganda.
1945: William Joyce lies in an ambulance under armed guard before being taken from British Second Army Headquarters to a hospital. Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to William Joyce and several other people who broadcast Nazi propaganda to the United Kingdom from Germany during the Second World War.
The following events occurred in September 1945: September 1, 1945 (Saturday) ... At the Old Bailey in London, William Joyce was sentenced to death for treason. [8]
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28 May – U.S.-born Irish-raised Nazi propagandist William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured by British forces on the German border. He later stands trial in London for high treason for his earlier wartime broadcasts, is convicted, and hanged in January 1946.
Here are the Reichssender Hamburg, station Bremen". Today, it is best known for its employment of several radio presenters jointly known as Lord Haw-Haw — most notably, William Joyce, who was German radio's most prominent English language speaker and to whom the name gradually came to be exclusively applied.
28 May – U.S.-born Irish-raised William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured by British forces on the German border a month after recording his final (rambling and audibly drunk) propaganda broadcast. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio, convicted, and then hanged in ...
Sir Lawrence Austin Byrne (17 September 1896 – 1 November 1965), also known as Laurence Byrne, was a barrister and High Court judge.He is perhaps best known for the prosecution of William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") in 1945, and as the presiding judge in the case of R v Penguin Books Ltd. in 1960, the prosecution of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 for the publication of D. H ...