William Joyce

William Joyce
Joyce shortly after capture, 1945
Born	William Brooke Joyce (1906-04-24)24 April 1906 New York City, U.S.
Died	3 January 1946(1946-01-03) (aged 39) HM Prison Wandsworth, London, England
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Resting place	Bohermore Cemetery, Galway, Ireland 53°16′37″N 9°01′49″W / 53.27692°N 9.03025°W / 53.27692; -9.03025
Other names	Lord Haw-Haw
Citizenship	United States (1906–1946)[1] Germany (1940–1946)
Education	Birkbeck College, London
Known for	Broadcasting German propaganda in World War II
Political party	Nazi Party
Criminal status	Executed
Children	2
Conviction(s)	High treason
Criminal penalty	Death

William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce became a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1932, before finally moving to Germany at the outset of the war where he took German citizenship in 1940.^[2]

At the end of the war, after capture, Joyce was convicted in the United Kingdom of high treason in 1945 and sentenced to death, with the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords both upholding his conviction. He was hanged in Wandsworth Prison by Albert Pierrepoint on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.^[a]

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