LORD HAW HAW

My mother in law who was 17ys old when WW2 broke out would often tell of the effect Lord Haw Haw had during the War.
She lived in Plymouth and when Plymouth was blitzed a lot of Plymothians would make their way onto Dartmoor to avoid the bombs, during Lord Haw Haws broadcasts he would say he knew that the people of plymouth were going up to the moors and that the bombs would get them as well, that there was no hiding place from Germany.
Although i have read that he was considered a laughing stock, my mother in law was quite scared of his broadcasts, she said he seemed to have a knowledge of local places and knew what people were doing and when.

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