ABSTRACT
Wartime broadcasting by the Nazis to Britain has been associated, in the popular mind, above all with William Joyce (‘Lord Haw-Haw’). Yet there were a great many other British people who undertook such activities. Their motives were extremely varied. On the one hand, there was Joyce and a number of other people whose pre-war political views had led them to espouse Germany’s cause (some claiming that, by opposing the Jewish and Communist threat in this way, they were in fact being loyal to Britain). At the other extreme, there were people who ended up in Nazi employment almost by accident – either because they had been unable to get out of Germany at the outbreak of war and needed money, or because they saw it as a way of getting out of being sent to a prisoner of war camp or internment camp (or, in Pearl Vardon’s case, because she had fallen in love with a German soldier in occupied Jersey, and had followed him back to Germany) (TNA KV 2/ 256, HO 45/ 25811, CRIM 1/ 1781). There were many gradations between these two extremes.
