Radio: Haw-Haw on Haw-Haw

Before Nazi bombing began to interfere with England's weekends and England's sleep, the Nazi propagandist that London dubbed "Lord Haw-Haw" caught many a listening British ear. Nightly from Germany, in accents more Oxonian than the Isis, he sneered at Britain's martial aims, deplored the bucktoothed poverty of the British populace, condemned Britain's leaders as a bunch of pumpkin heads. His sneers hit close enough home to rate his being listed as Britain's most annoying invisible mosquito. Who was he? It was a problem that baffled the easily bored British. At last the infallible ear of a deserted wife in Sussex...

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