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5 unusual facts about Mildred Gillars


Conneaut, Ohio

Mildred Gillars, American female radio personality (Axis Sally) during World War II, best known for her propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany.

Mildred Gillars

Gillars and Koischwitz worked for a time from Chartres and Paris for this purpose, visiting hospitals and interviewing POWs.

Gillars served her sentence at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, West Virginia.

She was then held by the Counterintelligence Corps at Camp King, Oberursel, along with fellow-collaborators Herbert John Burgman and Donald S. Day until she was conditionally released from custody on December 24, 1946.

In 1940 she obtained work as an announcer with the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG), German State Radio.


Herbert John Burgman

He was then held in detention along with Mildred Gillars and Donald S. Day by the Counterintelligence Corps at Camp King, Oberursel, until his conditional release on December 24, 1946.


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