Thread by @ajcdeane

Here is the second instalment of #deanehistory (the people have spoken on the hashtag). It is shorter & more graphic than yesterday’s.

Lord Haw Haw, real name William Joyce, was the voice of the Nazis on air during the Second World War & was of course the last person executed for treason in the U.K. - so far, so well known.

Less well known is that he was captured by a British intelligence unit after the war - specifically by a Jewish German who’d fled the nazis and signed up with us.

Perfect, yes? But it gets better.

Believing (he claimed) that Haw Haw was going for a gun, said Jew shot him. In the arse. *Through* the arse in fact - four wounds. Entry & exit through both buttocks.

Not life threatening, but deeply humiliating and painful.

I suggest that that takes a high level of accuracy.