The United States v. Douglas Chandler: America's ‘Lord Haw-Haw’

Criminalia

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This American traitor used the pseudonym 'Paul Revere’ when he broadcast over the airways. But it was the pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic agenda that dominated Douglas Chandler’s radio show that was problematic for the United States government, not his nom de plume.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with iHeartRadio.
0:13.7	This American trader used to the pseudonym Paul Revere when broadcasting propaganda over
0:18.8	the airways.
0:20.1	Yankee Doodle was his show's theme song, but it was the pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic agenda
0:26.3	that dominated Douglas Chandler's radio show that was problematic for the United States
0:31.1	government.
0:32.8	Welcome to Criminalia, I'm Maria Tremarkey.
0:35.5	And I'm Holly Frye.
0:37.2	Douglas Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1889, and we don't really catch up with
0:43.2	him or his life story on the historical timeline until he served as an officer in the US Navy
0:48.8	during World War I.
0:51.0	He married into a wealthy family and was successful himself as a stockbroker in the late 1920s.
0:58.0	Chandler, though like many, was financially ruined by the Great Depression.
1:03.2	He began working at the Baltimore News American, writing a weekly column which he often penned
1:08.6	in poetic verse.
1:10.8	Among those who knew him, he was considered a charming man, but also an arrogant one.
1:17.8	Around the time of the Depression, Chandler began to blame his failures, perceived and
1:23.1	real failures on the Jewish community, and he was outspoken, and I mean, bitterly outspoken
1:30.9	against the quote, un-American fog spreading over the land from the swamp of imported Jewish
1:37.1	Bolshevik subversion.
1:39.6	Yeah, so in September of 1931, seeking a new future, Chandler along with his wife, Laura,
1:47.5	and two daughters, Lorette and Patricia, moved from the United States to Europe.
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