Part One: Lord Haw-Haw: Hitler's Favorite Anglo Propagandist
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Who is Lord Haw-Haw and why is he significant?
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All right, everybody, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast where we tell you everything you don't know about the very worst people in all of history. And folks, on a normal week, basically every other week of the year, I read a story about a terrible person that I have researched and written and spent a lot of time on to one of our guests, who is generally a comedian or an academic or somebody who we thought would be fun to horrify for roughly two to three hours. This week, we're doing a little bit of a different thing. For one thing, my producer Sophie is not here, as she is currently engaged in moving, and that's a whole nightmarish hell. And the other thing that's different, the biggest thing that's different, is that this is going to be a reverse Behind the Bastards, where a guest is going to read me a story that they have written based on research they've done from a piece of shit.
in history. And I'd like to welcome a guest, well, the guest host to this episode, someone that you will have seen on It Could Happen Here if you're a regular listener of that podcast, Padraig O'Rourke. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for coming on and for doing the hard work of making an episode for me this week. No problem. Thanks for having me. And Jesus, yeah, it took like just finding the time to write these things. Like I think we discussed this idea first in like February, March, but I only just got it finished. Yeah, we were connected through our mutual friend, Jake Hanrahan, and you came on the show to talk about the Irish far right on It Could Happen Here, which was a great episode.
And yeah, you pitched around that same time this. And it's obviously like it's my whole job. So I find the time to do it every week. I have to. When it's like a side thing you're doing, it takes a long time to write 10,000 words about a shitty person. I still have to turn up to work for my government paymasters. But yeah, there you go.
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Yeah. Well, who are we learning about this week? Well, Robert, as you know, the original plan for this episode was to cover Andrew Windsor, or as he's now known, the alleged rapist formerly known as Prince. Yes. But seeing as how women who annoyed the British monarchy occasionally die in suspicious traffic accidents, we would have been putting Sophie's life in danger. And that is why she has gone into hiding. That's right.
What was William Joyce's early life like?
Yes, to protect her from the British royal family. And as we all know, there's nothing the British royal family and its armed forces love doing more than murdering Irishmen. So my neck was on the line, too. And I thought... I thought it would be safer if we covered a dead bastard instead of Andrew Saxe-Coburg. And we're no longer the prince. You'll get around to Prince Andrew someday. Anyway, Robert. Yeah, he is on the list, especially with all this juicy new Epstein stuff that's leaked. Oh, I totally believe him. He's innocent of everything. So, Robert, I know you've heard of this guy because you mentioned him before on a previous podcast. But I was wondering how much do you know or can you recall about William Joyce?
Yeah, you're talking about Lord Ha Ha, right? That's his... The name he's probably better... Certainly better known to Americans by. I read about him for the first time in one of the first World War II history books I read when I was in May. I couldn't have been much further than fifth or sixth grade. And it was... There was a chapter that talked about him and it talked about... there was kind of a woman in Japan who was sort of the Japanese equivalent of these like radio, like pro-fascist radio stars who would tell allied soldiers, basically, you're all going to get killed over here, you know, disobey your orders or whatnot, like it's hopeless to try to fight us, that sort of thing. So that's kind of my, it's a very surface level knowledge of the guy.
I'm aware that he was like the British equivalent of, and I'm spacing on the name of the, I think it's of the woman based in Tokyo who was doing the same thing over in the Pacific Theater.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Lord Haw-Haw and why is he significant?
0:02–2:17
2
What was William Joyce's early life like?
2:17–4:38
3
How did Joyce's upbringing influence his political views?
4:38–6:43
4
What role did Joyce play during the Irish War of Independence?
6:43–9:12
5
How did Joyce become involved with British intelligence?
9:12–11:11
6
What were the consequences of Joyce's actions during the conflict?
11:11–13:03
7
How did Joyce's life change after the Irish War of Independence?
13:03–15:26
8
What impact did Joyce have on British fascism in the 1920s?
15:26–1:02:59