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Posted on 08/20/2004 11:42:23 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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 WWII Propaganda Broadcasts American-born Axis Sally made propaganda broadcasts for Radio Berlin in Hitler's Germany, and paid the price for treason after the war. by Dale P. Harper She was named Mildred Elizabeth Sisk when she was born in Portland, Maine, on November 29, 1900. Her parents, Vincent Sisk and Mae Hewitson Sisk, were divorced in 1907, and a few years later Mildred's mother married a dentist, Dr. Robert Bruce Gillars. From that time on the child was known as Mildred Gillars. The family moved around a great deal during her early years, but Mildred Gillars eventually graduated from high school in Conneaut, Ohio, in 1917. Then it was on to Ohio Wesleyan University in the small town of Delaware, where, hoping to pursue a stage career, she majored in dramatic arts. Gillars did well in speech, languages and dramatics but did not graduate because of her failure to meet all university requirements and standards. According to her half sister, Gillars worked at a variety of jobs after leaving college--clerk, salesgirl, cashier and waitress--all to further her ambition to become an actress. In 1929 she went to Europe with her mother and spent six months studying in France before returning to the United States. Eventually Gillars went to New York, where she worked in stock companies, musical comedies and vaudeville, but never made enough impact to gain any real recognition. In 1933 she returned to Europe and worked in France as a governess and salesgirl. She moved to Germany in 1935 and became an English instructor at the Berlitz School of Languages in Berlin. English teachers were paid less than Russian instructors--a possible reason for her decision to accept employment by Radio Berlin as an announcer and actress. This was a job much more to her liking, and she stayed with it until the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945.  Gillars' propaganda program was known as "Home Sweet Home" and usually aired sometime between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. daily. Although she referred to herself as "Midge at the mike," GIs dubbed her Axis Sally. Her broadcasts were heard all over Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa and the United States from December 11, 1941, through May 6, 1945. Although most of her programs were broadcast from Berlin, some were aired from Chartres and Paris in France and from Hilversum in the Netherlands. Once the war was over, her broadcasts would come back to haunt her. At a listening post operated by the Federal Communications Commission in Silver Hill, Md., all her programs had been monitored and recorded and would provide the prosecution with damaging evidence at her trial. The prosecution charged that her broadcasts were sugarcoated propaganda pills aimed at convincing U.S. soldiers that they were fighting on the wrong side. Most GIs agreed that Gillars had a sultry, sexy voice that came over the radio loud and clear. Like her counterpart in the Pacific, Tokyo Rose, she liked to tease and taunt the soldiers about their wives and sweethearts back in the States. "Hi fellows," she would say. "I'm afraid you're yearning plenty for someone else. But I just wonder if she isn't running around with the 4-Fs way back home." She would get the names, serial numbers and hometowns of captured and wounded GIs and voice concern about what would happen to them, in broadcasts that could be heard in the United States. "Well I suppose he'll get along all right," she would say. "The doctors don't seem...I don't know... only time will tell, you see." At sign-off time she would tease her listeners some more, telling them, "I've got a heavy date waiting for me."  Perhaps Sally's most famous broadcast, and the one that would eventually get her convicted of treason, was a play titled Vision of Invasion that went out over the airwaves on May 11, 1944. It was beamed to American troops in England awaiting the D-Day invasion of Normandy, as well as to the home folks in America. Gillars played the role of an American mother who dreamed that her soldier son, a member of the invasion forces, died aboard a burning ship in the attempt to cross the English Channel. The play had a realistic quality to it, sound effects simulating the moans and cries of the wounded as they were raked with gunfire from the beaches. Over the battle action sound effects, an announcer's voice intoned, "The D of D-Day stands for doom...disaster...death...defeat...Dunkerque or Dieppe." Adelbert Houben, a high official of the German Broadcasting Service, would testify at Axis Sally's trial that her broadcast was intended to prevent the invasion by frightening the Americans with grisly forecasts of staggering casualties.      |
Green concrete.
Did you like the non-English page the link went to?
Nice painting. Thanks PE.
That'd be a might wide dive.
Tell spider boy congratulations! Neat "trophy".
He had a metal nose?
The Army, Navy and Marines all have some really cool historical sections to their sites. The USAF on the other hand doesn't have nearly the caliber of material. You'd think some of the Air Corp history would be more prominent, but since that was under Army auspices, it doesn't rate much attention.
I've always seen our country as too large. Too many people to much geography to cause any change. We certainly couldn't over throw anyone and couldn't stage a major work strike. Too many people with too many differences.
Oh, that did not matter to me. I can't read Finn either.
I'll be sure to pass along the congrats. Thanks ;-)
ROFL, I put the link in for grins. I recognize some of the "scientific" terminology, but am left scratching my head otherwise.
Good night you birds!! :-) LOL
I was privileged to help the Holzers in prepublication work for this, a damning indictment of Ho's ho nobody's Fonda.
She did six propaganda radio broadcasts in North Vietnam while we were at war with that nation.
In like fashion, John Fifthcolumn Kerry slandered our fighting men before the Senate and the world press during wartime;
Kerry traveled to Paris twice for secret meetings with Mme. Binh the Communist representative;
Kerry was a megaphone for the propaganda of the Communists--so much so that they honor him to this day by displaying his photo in their Museum of American War Crimes.
As chair of the Senate subcommittee on POW-MIAs, Kerry suppressed credible reports of surviving POW-MIAs in captivity, to the extent of shredding the committee's final report.
Kerry journeyed to Vietnam to secrete his glutinous saccharine to hasten all possible the "normalization" which brought cousin Forbes a billion in real estate contracts heretofore the leftist propaganda organs ascribed only to Halliburton.
The complete Kerry resume must transcend the mere mention of lying bragadochio, craven cowardice, unconscionable war crimes, and vile slander of honorable servicemen, to include the nadir of crimes, treason.
John Kerry has repeated this lie over fifty times in the public record.
Thanks to the meticulous documentation of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and Unfit for Command, John Kerry's lie has been exposed.
John Kerry's hamsters have scurried to salvage something from it, some scrap or fig leaf, but it is impossible.
John Kerry was not ever in Cambodia, and Christmas 1968 he was fifty miles away.
Although Nixon was capable of enormously dark deeds (according to the Ministry of Leftist Fairy Tales), he was not capable of ordering Kerry to Cambodia Christmas 1968, nor of denying Kerry (or any American servicemen) were in Cambodia Christmas 1968 as he was not innaugurated until January 20, 1969.
This fact is seared, seared in my memory, as I was in Washington, DC, to witness the preparation of the innaugural parade route.
No one was drunk, or firing on me; no one was denying I was there.
Now we are at war with Islamist terror, the axis of evil, the hate-America crowd, and Axis Kerry is telling us to surrender and he'll put a good word in for us with the French and Germans.
Nuts.
Good night feather.
Ah ha! That's what I keep saying but no one beleived me. :-)
Yeah, They seem to really hate to admit they were once the "ARMY AIR CORPS" ;-)
Kerry was a megaphone for the propaganda of the Communists--so much so that they honor him to this day by displaying his photo in their Museum of American War Crimes.
It helps when you come from "Money" and have a powerful Senator backing you. You can even get away with giving comfort and aid to the enemy. Now he wants to be a "hero" but he can't even keep his lies straight.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Thanks for the post.
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