William Joyce
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Joyce shortly after capture, 1945
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| Born |
William Brooke Joyce 24 April 1906 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 3 January 1946 (aged 39) Wandsworth Prison, London, England, UK |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Resting place | New Cemetery, Bohermore, Galway, Republic of Ireland 53°16′37″N 9°01′49″W / 53.27692°N 9.03025°W |
| Nationality | American German |
| Other names | Lord Haw-Haw |
| Alma mater | Birkbeck College, University of London |
| Known for | Broadcasting German propaganda in World War II |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) |
William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born, British Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and was sentenced to death. The Court of Appeal and the House of Lords upheld his conviction. He was hanged at Wandsworth Prison by Albert Pierrepoint on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. The death penalty for treason was formally abolished in the United Kingdom in 1998.
William Joyce was born on Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, New York, to an Anglican mother and an Irish Catholic father, Michael, who had taken United States citizenship on 25 October 1894. A few years after his birth, the family returned to Galway, Ireland.
Joyce attended the Jesuit St Ignatius College in Galway (1915–21). Unusual for Irish Roman Catholics, both Joyce and his father were strongly Unionist. Joyce later claimed he had aided the Black and Tans during the Irish War for Independence and had become a target of the Irish Republican Army.
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