Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Propaganda Before D-Day
Recently Added
•
13m
During the Second World War, millions of Allied soldiers heard a strange voice on German radio. She spoke perfect American English, joked about home, and warned soldiers they would die far from their families.
Her name was Mildred Gillars — better known as “Axis Sally.” From Berlin she broadcast Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the morale of American troops, including the infamous “Vision of Invasion” broadcast just weeks before D-Day.
After the fall of Nazi Germany, Gillars was captured and brought to the United States, where she stood trial for treason in one of the most unusual cases of the postwar era.
Up Next in Recently Added
-
The Execution of Eight Soviet General...
On 11–12 June 1937, one of the most devastating political purges in military history unfolded in the Soviet Union. Eight of the Red Army’s most prominent commanders — Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Iona Yakir, Ieronim Uborevich, Robert Eideman, August Kork, Vitovt Putna, Boris Feldman, and Vitaly ...
-
Gestapo Informer Behind 60% of Arrest...
On 9 April 1940, Nazi Germany launched Operation Weserübung and invaded Denmark. While the country initially experienced a relatively cooperative occupation, growing resistance and sabotage by 1943 pushed the Gestapo to rely increasingly on Danish collaborators to hunt down opponents of the regim...
-
Nazi SS Officer Roland Puhr: Killer a...
September 1938. After the Munich Agreement forces Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany, crowds of ethnic Germans welcome Adolf Hitler’s troops with flags and flowers. Among them is Roland Puhr, a Sudeten German who soon joins the SS and becomes one of the brutal perpetrators in ...
