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Gillars, Mildred (1901–1988)| US-born Axis propagandist. During World War II she broadcast Nazi propaganda aimed to demoralize American troops, who nicknamed her ‘Axis Sally’. Convicted of treason after the war, she spent 12 years in jail. She was a teacher in later years. She was born in Portland, Maine. Moving to Europe in the 1920s, she changed her name, and by 1934 was an English-language radio broadcaster in Berlin. |
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