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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

 

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.

 Churchill minister Leo Amery, author of Balfour Declaration, concealed he was Jewish — Jerusalem Post