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

—  William Joyce

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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