Last week the U.S. learned the identity of the Nazi radio commentator who has been detailed to be its Lord Haw-Haw.
He was announced to go on April 18, on the 166th anniversary of U.S. history's most famous ride. But it was not till the following week that piccolos squealed Yankee Doodle over the Berlin short-wave and a sound-effects man clopped coconut shells in simulation of furious galloping. Then, under the name of Paul Revere, "an unknown American of Pilgrim ancestry" took to the air and began in English to gabble for Goebbels....
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