Microphone used by Nazi traitor Lord Haw Haw to broadcast propaganda found 64 years

The microphone wartime traitor Lord Haw Haw used to broadcast Nazi propaganda into British homes has been discovered after 64 years.

A pile of scripts the infamous broadcaster - real name William Joyce - wrote and read out over the airwaves with his famous 'Germany calling' catchphrase have also come to light.



The items, including copied British newspaper articles, were seized by soldier Cyril Millwood when the Allies invaded Germany in 1945 and are now set to be sold at auction.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209142/Microphone-used-Lord-Haw-Haw-broadcast-Nazi-propaganda-UK-goes-sale.html#ixzz0PIMbD4UH

 

Interesting.... I´m sure someone pays alot to get it....

 

Thats one mean looking scar on his cheek. Any idea how he came by that?

 

I knew I had read that somewhere, and here it is (old file):

Joyce was born in New York of an Irish father and an English mother on 24 April 1906, but when he was only three the family moved to Ireland, settling in County Mayo. Joyce was educated at a convent school in Galway – the College of St. Ignatius Layola. It was here that during a fist fight with another boy that Joyce had his nose broken. He kept quiet about the injury and his nose never properly set – giving him the nasal broken drawl so familiar in his later broadcasts from Germany.

(later in the article)

At a Conservative meeting at Lambeth's Bath Hall the following year a squad of fascists under the control of William Joyce became involved in a fracas with left-wing agitators. It was here that Joyce received the famous scar that ran down the right side of his face from the lobe of his ear to the corner of his mouth. The scar was received during fighting in the meeting and Joyce had no doubt that the perpetrators were "Jewish Communists." This incident had a marked bearing on his outlook. He was reminded of his hatred of "the enemy" every time he looked in the mirror until the day he died.

From:

William Joyce, alias Lord Haw-Haw

 

Must have been a pretty rough fight - a wound like that must have been extremely painful and bloody!

 

Not knowing the specifics that looks similar to a scar a friend of mine received from a broken bottle used as a weapon. That slash on his face went up rather than down as Joyce's appears to be (from the ear down toward the mouth).

Bruce's went up his cheek into his hairline, and it bled like the dickens. It was deeper in the cheek flesh and "petering out" in depth as it got to his hair line between his eye and ear. That guy was going for Bruce's eye slashing up toward it, but missed.

 

Not directly connected to this but if you check Skorzeny´s and Röhm´s pics you notice that they had nice scars as well. Don´t know if people in civil life wanted these scars but at least in the German army circles the scars from sword fighting were considered as "essential".... weird stuff...

 

Kai, I think that was to do with the tradition of Schlager fighting which is a kind of duel designed not to injur but to put scars on the face (which is why combatants wore a mass of padding and goggles). Scars gained in duels were vey fashionable in 19th and early 20th century Germany, it simply stayed with the army longer.

There is a quote from WW1 where a young officer proudly wearing a dueling scar came into an HQ and a Prussian General looked at him and said 'in my day we parried with our swords not with our faces.'