Death In Dublin Of Nazi Propaganda Broadcaster
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DUBLIN. June 8. Norman Baillie-Stewart, a World War II propaganda broadcaster for Nazi Germany, died in Dublin yesterday, 20 years after being convicted of aiding the enemy.
When he was sentenced in 1946, Mr Justice Oliver said: “You are one of the worst citizens that any country has ever produced.” Baillie-Stewart, seized by Allied troops in the Austrian mountains at the end of the war, came to live in Dublin after serving his five-year sentence.
At the trials it was claimed Baillie-Stewart had applied for German nationality in 1938 and became a German after the war broke out.
However, under British law, he remained a British citizen as change of nationality is not allowed during war time. Baillie-Stewart had become world-famous years earlier as “the officer in the tower.”
In 1933, as a young lieutenant he was sentenced by court martial to five years gaol for giving secrets to Germany. He awaited trial in the Tower of London.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 20
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