Wolf Mittler was one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw during World War II, though he only recorded half a dozen propaganda sessions in 1939.
13 Facts About Wolf Mittler
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Wolf Mittler has been described by one author as "a blond Polish-German Anglophile playboy".
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Wolf Mittler's maternal grandfather had been born in Konigsberg, Prussia, but for much of his life lived in Ireland, where Mittler's mother was born.
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Wolf Mittler's father was a legal expert who, after the First World War, represented the Bavarian government in the Geneva Red Cross negotiations on the release and exchange of prisoners-of-war.
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Wolf Mittler later wrote a travel piece which he placed with the Berliner Tageblatt.
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In late 1937, Wolf Mittler joined the national German broadcaster, Reichs Rundfunk GmbH, as a reporter and announcer.
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Wolf Mittler worked for the short-wave station Deutsche Kurzwellensender and was a natural choice for English-language broadcasts.
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However, when the programmes acquired a more overtly political slant in about September 1939, Wolf Mittler found himself reluctantly acting as an English-language propagandist for Nazi achievements and goals.
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Wolf Mittler was a Polish German with curly blond hair, who had received his secondary education in Britain.
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Wolf Mittler drove big high-powered sports cars and he was a great attraction for women.
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Thereafter, Wolf Mittler was to be heard mostly on services for Asia and Africa.
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In 1943, Wolf Mittler fell under suspicion and fled to Italy, where he was captured by the Gestapo but managed to escape to Switzerland.
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Wolf Mittler conducted interviews with celebrities like Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Gregory Peck, Maria Callas, and Ingrid Bergman, and American president Richard Nixon.