William Joyce Quotes

William Brooke Joyce , nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born, Anglo-Irish Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He took German citizenship in 1940. He was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and sentenced to death. The Court of Appeal and the House of Lords upheld his conviction. He was hanged on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.



✵ 24. April 1906 – 3. January 1946
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Famous William Joyce Quotes

“On this tragic day, the death of Adolf Hitler was reported - Admiral Dönitz takes over as his nominated successor. Reach Flensburg about 8. Have to drink wine for breakfast — as nothing else is available.”

Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 301. UK National Archives KV 2/250/2, p. 55.
Diary entry, 1 May 1945.

“Germany calling! Germany Calling!”

Catchphrase used to introduce or begin his talks on German radio.

William Joyce Quotes

“And therefore I say to you, in these last words, you may not hear from me again for a few months. I say, Es lebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler, and farewell.”

End of Joyce's last broadcast (His voice heavily slurred due to an apparent state of intoxication)

“I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.”

Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman (Penguin Books, 1987), p. 43
Speech at Chiswick, 1934.

“A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel [a] in the English of Today”

Review of English Studies http://intl-res.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/os-IV/15/337, 1928 os-IV: 337-340.
Title of the first published work by Joyce.

“To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the Führer and National Socialism, and because I believe most ardently, as I do today, that victory and a perpetuation of the old system would be an incomparably greater evil for [England] than defeat coupled with a possibility of building something new, something really national, something truly socialist.”

Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 173. UK National Archives KV 2/245/285.
Broadcast, 2 April 1941. In this broadcast Joyce for the first time identified himself, in response to an article in the London Evening Standard which claimed he ran a spy ring in Britain.

“As a young man of pure British descent, some of whose forefathers have held high position in the British army, I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love so dearly.”

Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 145. UK National Archives KV 2/245/301a.
Letter to the University of London Military Education Committee, 9 August 1922.

“I salute you, Freja, as your lover for ever. Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!”

Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman op cit, p. 211
Last letter to his wife Margaret before he was hanged, 3 January 1946.

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