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As Americans adjust to a polarizing president-elect who helped set records for untrustworthiness as a candidate, many wonder how you build the public’s trust. Academics often describe the public as ...

William Joyce, better known as Lord Haw-Haw, was a notorious broadcaster of Nazi propaganda to the UK during World War II. His announcement 'Germany calling, Germany calling' was a familiar sound ...

Irish American William Joyce, the fascist propagandist famed for his radio broadcasts beginning with "Germany calling, Germany calling," was born on April 24, 1906. William Joyce, better known as Lord ...

A selection of the original broadcasts made by a notorious Nazi propagandist now available online for the first time Eleven previously unreleased documents and letters shed new light on how the BBC ...

This story was written by Angela's mother, Dobbie Dobinson: It was 1936. I was just 16 and looking for a bit of excitement, so I was quite interested when I was invited to a Blackshirt meeting. I was ...

On September 18, radio critic Jonah Barrington – pen name of Cyril Carr Dalmaine – was the first to brand the anonymous plummy voice he heard with the nickname “Lord Haw-Haw”. He wrote scathingly: “I ...

The BBC and the Government planned to combat Nazi propaganda broadcasts by Lord Haw-Haw by getting author P.G. Wodehouse to impersonate him, newly released documents reveal. The Ministry of War came ...

The last time a British court convicted someone of treason the country had just survived the existential threat of Hitler’s Germany. William Joyce, dubbed "Lord Haw-Haw" for the affected accent he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the second world war, Nazi Germany banned all listening to foreign radio stations. Germans who overlooked their duty to ...