Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
'Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling'. These were the words that began every broadcast by the American-born Briton William Joyce, nicknamed 'Lord Haw-Haw'. For nearly 6 years his broadcasts taunted the British public about the going of the war, intended to demoralize them in order to be more amenable to peace with Nazi Germany. An avowed fascist, anti-Semite, and Nazi supporter who had fled to Germany from Britain shortly before the beginning of the war, so he would remain to the very end.
Note that this program was made in 1995. In 2005, Joyce's biographer Nigel Farndale suggested that, on the basis of documents made public for the first time between 2000 and 2005, Joyce had made a deal with his prosecutors not to reveal links he had to MI5. In return, his wife Margaret, known to radio listeners as 'Lady Haw-Haw', was spared prosecution for high treason. She was the only one of 32 British renegades caught in Germany not to be charged with treason.
This is the full-length episode. Previous uploads are TV recordings with 3 minutes cut.
'Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling'. These were the words that began every broadcast by the American-born Briton William Joyce, nicknamed 'Lord Haw-Haw'. For nearly 6 years his broadcasts taunted the British public about the going of the war, intended to demoralize them in order to be more amenable to peace with Nazi Germany. An avowed fascist, anti-Semite, and Nazi supporter who had fled to Germany from Britain shortly before the beginning of the war, so he would remain to the very end.
Note that this program was made in 1995. In 2005, Joyce's biographer Nigel Farndale suggested that, on the basis of documents made public for the first time between 2000 and 2005, Joyce had made a deal with his prosecutors not to reveal links he had to MI5. In return, his wife Margaret, known to radio listeners as 'Lady Haw-Haw', was spared prosecution for high treason. She was the only one of 32 British renegades caught in Germany not to be charged with treason.
This is the full-length episode. Previous uploads are TV recordings with 3 minutes cut.
