biography
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Gillars, Mildred
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originally Mildred Elizabeth Sisk
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| female
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| lived:
| (1901–88)
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| biography:
| Axis propagandist, born in Portland, Maine, USA. She went to Europe in the 1920s, changed her name, and by 1934 was an English-language radio broadcaster in Berlin. During World War 2 she broadcast Nazi propaganda aimed at demoralizing US troops, who nicknamed her ‘Axis Sally’. Convicted of treason, she spent 12 years in jail. She was a teacher in later years. |
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