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Dubbed "Lady Haw-Haw" by the British, Jane Anderson broadcasts over short wave to North America from the powerful Zeesen transmitter in Germany...
...most certainly was one when she left. As soon as the U.S. Government procured her release, she began stumping the U.S. for the Fascists. Her penny-dreadful harangues were illustrated with lurid firsthand accounts of Communist "atrocities" and "tortures" in Spain. How she got to Germany and became Lady Haw-Haw no one seems to know...
Berlin's broadcasts to the U.S. being in general too dull for any but the beeriest Bundsman, Goebbels & Co. have tried various publicity dodges (such as paying for collect cablegrams) to stir up interest. Fortnight ago CBS's short-wave listening station heard Lord Haw-Haw introduced; then a voice said, in German, "Switch that off." Later it was announced to America that Haw-Haw had been "banned from the air." But England continued to hear His Lordship on his usual schedule. Last week Lord Haw-Haw explained that he had been "banned" not by Germany...
...have been destroyed (see p. 10) and various Russian cities had already been reported ruined by Russian hands. The retreat had been slow enough to make possible some industrial destruction (factories cannot be destroyed by the hasty heaving of dynamite sticks). Last week Berlin's radio Propagandist Lord Haw-Haw acknowledged an earth-scorching holocaust in the Western Ukraine, gave a clue to the reason for Stalin's reestablishment of political commissars in the Red Army (TIME, July...
Said Lord Haw-Haw: "Blazing fields, burned-out oil tanks, dead horses, slaughtered pigs . . . destroyed tractors, plundered stables and shops. . . . These criminal means of destruction . . . can always be traced back to the work of the commissars which evokes the most bitter resentment among the long-suffering population. . . . On many occasions the inhabitants of villages in the Ukraine had to be held back from lynching their former tyrants...