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Mildred Elizabeth Gillars (née Sisk; November 29, 1900 – June 25, 1988) [1] was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate Axis propaganda during World War II. Following her capture in post-war Berlin, Gillars became the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States. [2]
Axis Sally was the generic nickname given to women radio personalities who broadcast English-language propaganda on behalf of the European Axis Powers during World War II. These included: Mildred Gillars, a German American who broadcast for Nazi Germany.
Nov 23, 2009 · Mildred Gillars, better known as "Axis Sally" to American GIs, sits for an interview with an AP reporter in her cell at a U.S. Army prison in Oberursel, Germany, after learning she had been released. The Oregon native served 12 years in jail for taking part in a Nazi propaganda radio show that broadcast throughout Germany aimed at American troops.
Sep 20, 2023 · On September 24, 1948, Mildred Gillars—the notorious American citizen known as “Axis Sally,” who had been living in Germany and broadcasting Nazi radio propaganda during World War II —pleads...
Just before the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, Axis Sally (an American appellation; she introduced herself in her sultry voice simply as “Sally”) broadcast a demoralizing and exaggerated account of the horrors awaiting any Allied soldiers foolhardy enough to invade Adolf Hitler’s Fortress Europe.
May 28, 2021 · American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally: Directed by Michael Polish. With Meadow Williams, Al Pacino, Carsten Norgaard, Marcus Rafinski. American Traitor follows the life of American woman Mildred Gillars and her lawyer who struggles to redeem her reputation.
So began a typical address by Nazi propaganda radio broadcaster Mildred Gillars, known as Axis Sally, during World War II. Her program was filled with hateful rhetoric directed against U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the Jewish people.
Nov 6, 2023 · An American woman living in Germany during World War II, Mildred Gillars hosted several radio programs under the nickname "Axis Sally" as part of a Nazi propaganda effort to demoralize Allied troops. She later became the first woman ever convicted of treason by the United States.
Jul 2, 1988 · Mildred E. Gillars, nicknamed Axis Sally by American soldiers in World War II for her Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts, died of cancer of the colon last Saturday at Grant Medical Center in...
Gillars, Mildred E. (1900–1988) American-born radio personality who was convicted of wartime treason for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Germany during World War II. Name variations: Axis Sally; Mildred Gillars Sisk.
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