"Lord Haw Haw," who broadcast propaganda to England from Germany during World War II. Although he was not a spy, he was deeply involved in espionage through his association with pro-German operatives in England. Anna Wolkoff, who received U.S. Embassy documents from code clerk Tyler Kent, secretly sent potential topics for anti-British propaganda to Joyce.
Joyce got his nickname from British listeners because he used an assumed aristocratic accent to deliver his pro-Nazi broadsides. A member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, he went to Germany in 1939 and became one of Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels's radio stars.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to an English mother and Irish-American father, Joyce moved to Great Britain with his family in 1921. He claimed to be an American citizen when he was put on trial for treason in London's Old Bailey after the war. The court held that as the holder of a British passport he was a subject of the Crown. He was found guilty and hanged on Jan. 3, 1946.
