Scotland's Lord Haw Haw, Donald Grant [radio documentary]
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- Radio played a key role in the propaganda campaigns of Nazi Germany. The most notorious personality in this radio war was William Joyce, or 'Lord Haw-Haw' - who came to be known as the English voice of Nazi Germany. But he wasn't alone in this effort.
Professor Jo Fox of Durham University discovers the lost transcripts of Radio Caledonia, a 'secret station' designed to disseminate defeatist propaganda to the people of Scotland and sow seeds of dissent among its listeners. Set up by the German Propaganda Ministry in 1940, the presenter was Scottish national Donald Grant.
Jo Fox examines the Nazis' attempts to appeal to Scottish nationalist feeling through these broadcasts and asks why, unlike Joyce, Donald Grant was spared execution.
27th November 2017
So are these transcripts or also some recordings? Would have been possible to record with magnetic tapes. The germans already used this technology.
Seems he was well positioned to have a verified opinion, given the facts about Germany of the period it was a veritable paradise and no mistake. Well done him, glad he survived.
Well done. As a professional historian I'm a little sheepish to admit I had never heard of this.
It sounded to me like he wanted peace, at least from the clips played. Churchill had German civilians bombed the day he came to power and for four more months before they retaliated.
It's pronounced Grant and not Grarnt
There's the theory the Soviets demanded Joyce be executed...for various reasons.
www.counter-currents.com/2018/06/lord-haw-haw-of-mi5/#more-83493
Pétain was a great hero of the French, but he got a death sentence, barely commuted by de Gaulle. This condemnation wasn’t a ‘French’ decision, any more than the hanging of Joyce was a ‘British’ decision. The British Government was so thoroughly permeated by Soviet interests that if you argued in favor of Joyce you were going to be branded a ‘Nazi’ yourself. The Soviets did not want their collaboration with the Germans 1939-41 to be on the table.
The British services were in at the foundation of fascism; MI5 paid Mussolini £100 a week in 1917 to fight leftists opposed to Italian participation with the Allies in the First War. MI5 was a pro-fascist service till the latter 30s. The Soviets had excellent intelligence and were perfectly aware of this.
What crimes? He was an American.
America was at war with Germany. Sorry to inform you of that fact.
Actually wasn't, so the orchestrated pearl harbour was set up, read 'Skeleton in Uncle Sam's closet' by Hartford Van Dyke.
@@alanle1471 Wall Street was.
Excellent research on a largely forgotten character. These stories make WWII come to life, especially to me as I was once a shortwave hobbyist and presently a WWII history fanatic!
In Ian Flemings book, From Russia with love , Donald Grant is recruited by SMERSH to kill James Bond.
Great movie.
A splendid piece of 'forgotten' history!
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he
lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”---- Ernest
Hemingway.
The haggis Haw Haw.
Superb,and very interesting story.im now going to try and find out what happened if anything to lord haw haws wife
She died in 1971.
Wow, I'm genuinely shocked that this woman finds it so hard to comprehend that someone who preferred peace to the worst war in human history, resulting in the deaths of 50 million people, might not necessarily have been a Nazi.
They were working for nazis. Nazi Germany had nothing to do with peace. Read history
They all come out of the fretwork.I wonder what would have happened had Germany won and would their collaboration have been duly rewarded?
A brave and courageous man. An unsung hero.
A hero to the axis. A traitor to the Allies.
I never heard about this man before.
Great upload
Recognised Haw Haw by his voice ? That scar running from his mouth to his right ear must have helped too.
By the way, there is good radio play on youtube about another broadcaster, John Amery ( whose family had links to Churchilll and the Government Government ) who WAS tried and executed after the war.
@James Henderson wouldn't help you recognise any of them on the radio.
Got the scar fighting communists in London
He was a hero.
He was a hero to the fascists and the Nazis.
@@alanle1471 Churchill praised fascism.
I wonder what Alex and Nicola would have made of this?
Nicola is after the position.
You beat me to it , do not not mention this man to Nicola .
He'd be an SNP councillor were he about today.
@James Henderson Agreed. No one in the SNP would support war on Nationalist Germany, like the British and French empires did.
@James Henderson see what I mean tho?
@James Henderson Damn you've actually revisited this video 3 times in 4 months to post the same weak trollbait 😂 What a freak
Get a fucking grip.
Hitler would be the lesser evil than The Westminster Nazis.