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War criminals (by Latuff)

Latuff | 24.10.2007 21:00 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

War criminals
War criminals


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Enemy propagandists

25.10.2007 06:09

Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English language propaganda radio programme 'Germany Calling', broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain on the mediumwave station Radio Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. The programme started on 18 September 1939 and continued until April 30, 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army. The nickname generally refers to William Joyce, who was the German radio's most prominent English-language speaker, but several other speakers could sometimes be confused with him.

Through such broadcasts, the Nazi Third Reich attempted to discourage and demoralize British and American troops and the British population within radio listening range in the British isles, to suppress the effectiveness of the Allied war effort through propaganda, and to motivate the Allies to agree to peace terms leaving the Nazi regime intact and in power. Among many techniques used, the Nazi broadcasts prominently reported on the shooting down of Allied aircraft and the sinking of Allied ships, presenting discouraging reports of high losses and casualties among Allied forces. Although the broadcasts were widely known to be Nazi propaganda, they frequently offered the only details available from behind enemy lines concerning the fate of friends and relatives who did not return from bombing raids over Germany. As a result, Allied troops and civilians frequently listened to Lord Haw-Haw's broadcasts in spite of the sometimes infuriating content and frequent inaccuracies and exaggerations, in the hopes of learning clues about the fate of Allied troops and air crews.

[...] William Joyce replaced Mitler in 1939. Joyce was American-born and raised in Ireland. Although a Catholic, as a teenager he informed on the IRA rebels to the British forces during the Anglo-Irish War. He was also formerly a senior member of the British Union of Fascists, and fled England when tipped off about his planned internment on August 26, 1939. He was the main German broadcaster in English for most of the war, and became a naturalised German citizen; he is usually regarded as "Lord Haw-Haw," even though he was probably not the person to whom the term originally referred. He had a peculiar hybrid accent that was not of the conventional upper class variety. His distinctive pronunciation of "Jairmany calling, Jairmany calling" which can be described as a "nasal drawl," may have been the result of a broken nose.
After Joyce took over, Mitler was paired with the American-born announcer Mildred Gillars in the Axis Sally program and also broadcast to ANZAC forces in North Africa. Mitler survived the war and appeared on postwar German television. Joyce was captured by British forces in northern Germany just as the war ended, tried, and eventually hanged for treason on January 3, 1946. As an American citizen and naturalised German, Joyce could not have been convicted of treason against the Crown; however, the prosecution successfully argued on the basis of a technicality that having lied about his nationality to obtain a British passport and to vote, Joyce owed allegiance to the King.

The decision to hang him was made perhaps because of the fear his alleged omniscience had inspired. As J.A. Cole has written, "The British public would not have been surprised if, in that Flensburg wood, Haw-Haw had carried in his pocket a secret weapon capable of annihilating an armoured brigade."

Lord Haw Haw


The beast in the white house....

25.10.2007 13:08

...is the war criminal.

Check:

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/nato/story/0,12667,976499,00.html

...if you have nothing to hide Bush, why not sign up?... I think perhaps the total and complete headcase is fearful of spending the rest of its life locked up in a small room in solitary confinment. Well whatever, that piece of vermin has the sort of karma that, well, think of total unescapably fear voiding from all orifaces at once. You poor little cunt Bush. I almost feel sorry for you. You started the 'respect war' of the century you absolute lunatic.

Jah Bless.

King Amdo


Lord Haw Haw is revered as a hero in...

25.10.2007 18:36

...Cymru by the way - thats how much they hate you colonialist bwitish perverts.

CYMRU TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY!

King Amdo