Talk:List of English-language broadcasters for Nazi Germany

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Alekksandr in topic Other people

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Should this article include the following?

  • Margaret Bothamley - http://www.statesecrets.co.uk/who/index-b.html - 'She ... stayed [in Germany in September 1939], broadcasting Nazi propaganda alongside WILLIAM JOYCE. She was tried in March 1946 but, unlike Joyce, she was only handed down a year's imprisonment.
  • Donald Alexander Fraser Grant[3]
  • Susan Hilton - worked in Irland-Redaktion.
  • Cyril Charles Hoskins of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps - the principal speaker and writer of the ‘Christian Peace Movement’. This purported to be the output of an underground organization of pacifists agitating against British involvement in an immoral war.[4]
  • "Raymond Davies HUGHES, alias John BAKER, George BECKER, Raymond SHARPLES: an RAF Warrant Officer, he was shot down over Germany and imprisoned. He aided the enemy in various ways including broadcasting propaganda. In 1945 he was court martialled, sentenced to 5 years imprisonment and reduced to the ranks." - see The National Archives files KV 2/262 and KV 2/263.
  • "Reginald Arthur HUMPHRIES: a teacher in Germany at the outbreak of war, he was interned and made broadcasts from Germany from 1943 onwards under the names, 'Father DONOVAN' and 'JEFFRIES'. He was convicted in 1945 of aiding the enemy and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment." - see The National Archives file KV 2/258.
  • "Henry William WICKS: he went to Germany with his family in 1939 before war was declared and refused to return. Interned from July 1940 to November 1942, he was released and worked for German Radio in 1943-1944. Sentenced in 1945 to four years' imprisonment for acts likely to assist the enemy, his appeal against conviction and sentence was dismissed." - see The National Archives files KV 2/418 to KV 2/422.

Alekksandr (talk) 20:36, 10 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Locations 3649-3661). Random House. Kindle Edition.
  2. ^ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Locations 891-892). Random House. Kindle Edition.
  3. ^ Sean Murphy, Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War, Stroud, 2006, pp. 89-90
  4. ^ Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12). Renegades (Kindle Locations 893-895). Random House. Kindle Edition.