Theodore Schurch
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Theodore William John Schurch was a British soldier who was executed under the Treachery Act 1940 after the end of the Second World War. He was the last person to be executed in Britain for an offence
Schurch in British custody (11 May 1945)
William Joyce
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William Brooke Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce bec
Theodore Schurch
…Schurch was hanged on 4 January 1946 at HM Prison Pentonville, at the age of 27. His execution was carried out by Albert Pierrepoint, who had hanged William Joyce the previous day for high treason. Schurch was the only British soldier executed for treachery committed during the war. However, Duncan Scott-Ford, a…
Joyce shortly after capture, 1945
Dämmerung über England (Twilight over England), 3rd edition, Berlin 1942