What was the real name of the WW 2 traitor Lord Haw Haw?
Lord Haw-Haw the nickname, American pro-Nazi broadcaster Fred W. Kaltenbach was given the moniker "Lord Hee-Haw" by the British media. The "Lord Hee-Haw" name, however, was used for a time by "The Daily Telegraph" to refer to Lord Haw-Haw, generating some confusion between nicknames and broadcasters. A number of announcers could have been Lord Haw-Haw: William Joyce replaced Mittler in 1939. Joyce was American-born and raised in Ireland and as a teenager he was an informant to the British forces about the IRA members during the Irish War of Independence. He was also a senior member of the British Union of Fascists
Lord Haw-Haw forces! Haw, Haw," a low-brow putdown obviously meant as a discouragement to the opposition. The "Haw, Haw" name reference was then applied to a number of different announcers and, even soon after Barrington coined the nickname, it was uncertain exactly which specific German broadcaster he was describing. Some British media and listeners just used "Lord Haw-Haw" as a generic term to describe all English-language German broadcasters, although other nicknames, like "Sinister Sam", were occasionally used by the BBC to distinguish between obviously different speakers. Poor reception may have contributed to some listeners' difficulties in distinguishing between broadcasters. In reference to