Talk:List of English-language broadcasters for Nazi Germany

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Should this article include the following?

• Leonard Banning

• 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.

• Arthur Chapple - one of a group of 'Service renegades [who had] been employed in editing, writing scripts, and broadcasting for the enemy, and in certain cases the same men [were] also employed in journalism. - National Archives Court-martial papers - WO 71/1133

• William Colledge alias Winter, 'a member of the North Somerset Yeomanry, who continued to broadcast until 1943.' - - National Archives Court-martial papers - WO 71/1131

• Railton Freeman - also served in the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers

• Donald Alexander Fraser Grant

• William Humphrey Griffiths - as Chapple - National Archives Court-martial papers - WO 71/1110

• 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.

• "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.

• Barry Payne Jones - see An Illustrated Dictionary of the Third Reich, by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage, P 141

• John Lingshaw

• Francis Paul Maton

• Ronald Spillman - as Chapple - National Archives Court-martial papers - WO 71/1112

• "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)

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