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"Partially subverted" isn't a thing. This sounds more like an aversion.


The Germans also employed a male version, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_haw_haw Lord Haw-Haw]]," the host of a regular program entitled ''Germany Calling.'' Though the program had several hosts, the name "Lord Haw-Haw" eventually became associated with a single individual: Anglo-Irish-American[[note]]It's complicated. He was born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents. His father was Irish, and his mother Anglo-Irish and raised in Britain (and hostile to Irish nationalism - so much so that her son was targeted by [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution the IRA all the way back in 1921]] because he was a notorious [[TheInformant informer]]. )[[/note]] William Joyce, who held the job beginning in 1940. He had a nasal drawl and so his opening line sounded like "This is Jairmany calling". Joyce was captured in Germany in 1945 and put on trial for treason in Britain, after some legal debate over whether an American citizen (as came out during the trial) could be charged with betraying the Crown. The ruling was that since he'd got a British passport (he'd lied about his citizenship to get it), he was supposed to have loyalty to the King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He was convicted and hanged in 1946. Incidentally enough, he was among the last people imprisoned in the Tower of London, and the second-last to be executed for a crime other than murder. The Japanese equivalent was an Australian named Reggie Hollingsworth, about whom little is known but who has been described as sounding like "[[UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill Churchill]] broadcasting from Tokyo". UsefulNotes/FascistItaly partially subverted this trope by foregoing an alias personality altogether and getting noted American poet and mentor to Creator/TSEliot, Ezra Pound, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound#Radio_broadcasts to voluntarily give pro-fascist/anti-semitic/anti-American broadcasts until his eventual capture by the Allies following the Italian Campaign]]

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The Germans also employed a male version, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_haw_haw Lord Haw-Haw]]," the host of a regular program entitled ''Germany Calling.'' Though the program had several hosts, the name "Lord Haw-Haw" eventually became associated with a single individual: Anglo-Irish-American[[note]]It's complicated. He was born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents. His father was Irish, and his mother Anglo-Irish and raised in Britain (and hostile to Irish nationalism - so much so that her son was targeted by [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution the IRA all the way back in 1921]] because he was a notorious [[TheInformant informer]]. )[[/note]] William Joyce, who held the job beginning in 1940. He had a nasal drawl and so his opening line sounded like "This is Jairmany calling". Joyce was captured in Germany in 1945 and put on trial for treason in Britain, after some legal debate over whether an American citizen (as came out during the trial) could be charged with betraying the Crown. The ruling was that since he'd got a British passport (he'd lied about his citizenship to get it), he was supposed to have loyalty to the King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He was convicted and hanged in 1946. Incidentally enough, he was among the last people imprisoned in the Tower of London, and the second-last to be executed for a crime other than murder. The Japanese equivalent was an Australian named Reggie Hollingsworth, about whom little is known but who has been described as sounding like "[[UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill Churchill]] broadcasting from Tokyo". UsefulNotes/FascistItaly partially subverted averted this trope by foregoing an alias personality altogether and getting noted American poet and mentor to Creator/TSEliot, Ezra Pound, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound#Radio_broadcasts to voluntarily give pro-fascist/anti-semitic/anti-American broadcasts until his eventual capture by the Allies following the Italian Campaign]]

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