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William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born Irish-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. The Court of Appeal and the House of Lords upheld his conviction. He was hanged at Wandsworth Prison by Albert Pierrepoint. == Early life == 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). Unusually 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.〔(Lord Haw-Haw and the Black and Tans ), Axis History Forum.〕 Following what he alleged to be an assassination attempt in 1921 (which supposedly failed because he took a different route home from school), he left for England and briefly attended King's College School, Wimbledon, on a foreign exchange. His family followed him to England two years later. Joyce had relatives in Birkenhead, Cheshire, whom he visited on a few occasions. He enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment in 1921, but he was discharged when it was discovered he had lied about his age.〔A.N. Wilson, "After the Victorians", Hutchinson, London, 2005, p. 421〕 He then applied to Birkbeck College of the University of London and to enter the Officer Training Corps. At Birkbeck, he obtained a First-Class honours degree.〔A.N. Wilson, "After the Victorians", Hutchinson, London, 2005〕 He also developed an interest in Fascism, and he worked with (but never joined) the British Fascists of Rotha Lintorn-Orman. On 22 October 1924, while stewarding a meeting in support of Jack Lazarus (the Conservative Party candidate for Lambeth North in the general election), Joyce was attacked by Communists and received a deep razor slash that ran across his right cheek. It left a permanent scar which ran from the earlobe to the corner of the mouth. He claimed his attackers were Jews. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Joyce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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