Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to the Irish-American William Joyce, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain from Germany during the Second World War. The broadcasts opened with "Germany calling, Germany calling", spoken in an affected upper-class English accent. The same nickname was also applied to some other broadcasters of English language propaganda from Germany, but it is Joyce with whom the name is now overwhelmingly identified. There are various theories about its origin. The English language propaganda radio programme "Germany Calling" was broadcast to audiences in the United Kingdom on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and
Joyce Lussu Joyce Lussu Joyce Salvadori (8 May 1912 – 4 November 1998), better known by her married name Joyce Lussu, was an Italian writer, translator and partisan. She was born in Florence as Gioconda Beatrice Salvadori Paleotti to parents from the Marche of English origins. Her father, count Guglielmo Salvadori Paleotti, was a positivist philosopher, Anglophile and aristocrat. As opponents of Italian fascism the family moved abroad. Joyce was educated according to the principles of Rudolf Steiner in Germany, France and Portugal before taking degrees in literature at the Sorbonne and in philology at Lisbon. Her travels in Africa during the