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came when he was informed that a woman calling herself "Barbara Mome" was selling her furniture at second-hand markets around the city. A shop owner whose stock contained a table belonging to Gillars was detained and under "intensive interrogation" revealed Gillars' address. When she was arrested on March 15, 1946, Gillars only asked to take with her a picture of Koischwitz.
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pilot shot down by the Germans, recalled that a woman who had visited his prison camp seeking interviews was the broadcaster who called herself "Midge at the Mike", and had used the alias Barbara Mome. Woerheide organized wanted posters with Gillars' picture to put up in Berlin, and the breakthrough
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audience, including the "Bitch of Berlin", "Berlin Babe", "Olga", and "Sally", but the most common was "Axis Sally". This name probably came when asked on air to describe herself, Gillars said she was "the Irish type… a real Sally." Gillars expressed anti-Semitic sentiments during her broadcasts.
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was advising American nationals to leave Germany and German-controlled territories. However, Gillars chose to remain because her fiancé Paul Karlson, a naturalized German citizen, said he would never marry her if she returned to the United States. Shortly afterwards, Karlson was sent to the
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broadcast. She was stripped of her US citizenship, was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison and a $ 10,000 fine ($ 128,000 today). The judge spared Gillars from a harsher sentence since she had not participated in high-level Nazi propaganda policy conferences as was the case with
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Throughout her life Gillars was unapologetic about her association with Nazism. Shortly before her death, a neighbour claimed that she showed her a cup that she described as one of her most cherished possessions. She said that it had been given to her by
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Koischwitz died in August 1944 and Gillars' broadcasts became lackluster and repetitive without his creative energy. She remained in Berlin until the end of the war. Her last broadcast was on May 6, 1945, just two days before the surrender of Germany.
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Gillars was indicted on September 10, 1948, and charged with ten counts of treason, but only eight were used at her trial which began on January 25, 1949. The prosecution relied on the large number of her programs recorded by the
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attempted to exploit the fears of American soldiers about the home front. The broadcasts were designed to make soldiers feel doubt about their mission, their leaders, and their prospects after the war.
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of Koischwitz and therefore not fully responsible for her actions until after his death. On March 10, 1949, the jury convicted Gillars on just one count of treason, that of making the
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Gillars' initial broadcasts were largely apolitical, but started with the phrase "this is Berlin calling". Eventually, she started a relationship with
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The Sirens of Wartime Radio and How the American Print Media Presented Them: The Stories, the Intrigue, and the Evolving Coverage of Their Legacies
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against the United States. In March 1949, she was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment. Gillars was paroled in 1961. Along with
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In 1929, she moved to France and lived in Paris for six months. In 1933, Gillars left the United States again, residing first in
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and was eventually flown to the United States on August 21, 1948, to await trial on charges of aiding the German war effort.
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During one broadcast, she said "I say damn Roosevelt and Churchill, and all of their Jews who have made this war possible."
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in which Gillars used information on wounded and captured U.S. airmen to cause fear and worry in their families. After
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but was unable to establish a theatrical career. Gillars also worked as an artist's model for sculptor
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Dutkin, Howard L. (February 25, 1949). "Love for Mystic Professor Led Her to 'Destiny,' Sally Says".
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March 10 – A Federal jury found Mildred E. (Axis Sally) Gillars guilty of treason today ...
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and included her in his political broadcasts. Gillars soon acquired several names amongst her
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dispatched prosecutor Victor C. Woerheide to Berlin to find and arrest Gillars. He and
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Traitors & Turncoats: Twenty Tales of Treason from Benedict Arnold to Ezra Pound
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Crimes against the State: Sedition, Rebellion, and Treason since America's Founding
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Gillars made her most famous broadcast on May 11, 1944, a few weeks prior to the
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on German State Radio, directed to U.S. troops and audience, during World War II
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Gillars' wartime broadcasts and trial are the subject of the 2021 legal drama
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while in prison, Gillars went to live at the Our Lady of Bethlehem Convent in
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Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
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in 1959, but did not apply until 1961. She was released on June 10, 1961.
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special agent Hans Winzen only had one solid lead: Raymond Kurtz, a
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and Paris for this purpose, visiting hospitals and interviewing
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On 6 May 1940, Gillars obtained work as an announcer with the
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The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1986-1990
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at Grant Medical Center in Columbus on June 25, 1988.
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She was then held by the Counterintelligence Corps at
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to study dramatic arts, but left without graduating.
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Axis Sally, the Greatest Generation, and Generation Y
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Suisman, David; Strasser, Susan (October 11, 2011).
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Index

Gillars

Portland, Maine
Columbus, Ohio
Axis Sally
Nazi propaganda
Conviction(s)
Treason
née
Nazi Germany
Axis
World War II
Berlin
treason
Rita Zucca
Axis Sally
Portland, Maine
Bellevue, Ohio
Conneaut, Ohio
Ohio Wesleyan University
Greenwich Village
vaudeville
Mario Korbel
Algiers
Dresden
Berlitz
Berlin
Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft
U.S. State Department
Eastern Front

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