1. Douglas Chandler was an American broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during World War II.
18 Facts About Douglas Chandler
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Douglas Chandler was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1947 but was released in 1963.
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When Germany declared war on the United States on December 11,1941, American citizens were repatriated by the US government, but Douglas Chandler chose to stay.
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Douglas Chandler appealed to Americans to "throw off tyranny" and to their isolationist sentiment.
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Douglas Chandler asserted that Roosevelt was under the control of Jewish advisers.
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Douglas Chandler became known as America's Lord Haw-Haw because of his cultivated American voice.
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Douglas Chandler was paid $3,200 a month as a broadcaster, which put him in the top six on the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft's payroll.
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Towards the end of 1943, the increased Allied bombing of Berlin caused Douglas Chandler to be relocated first to Vienna and then to Munich, where he made his last broadcasts sometime in February 1945.
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Douglas Chandler was taken into custody by the US Army at his home in Durach, Bavaria, in May 1945, but he was released on October 23,1945.
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Douglas Chandler was then rearrested by the US Army on or about March 12,1946, at the request of the Department of Justice.
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Douglas Chandler was then flown to the United States to stand trial and arrived on December 14,1946.
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Douglas Chandler stood trial at the Boston Federal District Court on June 6,1947.
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Douglas Chandler entered a defense of insanity because of paranoia and did not testify at his trial.
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Douglas Chandler was found guilty of all ten counts of treason on June 28,1947.
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Douglas Chandler was fined $10,000 and sentenced to life imprisonment by Federal Judge Francis Ford.
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On being convicted for treason, Douglas Chandler automatically lost his US citizenship.
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Douglas Chandler was released from the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, on August 9,1963, and immediately returned to Germany.
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In 1970, Douglas Chandler wrote a letter to National Geographic editor Melville Bell Grosvenor, requesting reimbursement for expenses incurred on an assignment that had been canceled shortly after his Nazi sympathies were revealed.