Axis Sally

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Axis Sally was the generic nickname given to women radio personalities who broadcast English-language propaganda on behalf of the European Axis powers during World War II. These included:

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On their radio shows, the two Axis Sally personalities would typically alternate between swing music and propaganda messages aimed at American troops. These messages would typically emphasize the value of surrender, stoke fears that soldiers' wives and girlfriends were cheating on them, and point out that the Axis powers knew their locations. American soldiers listened to Gillars' broadcasts for the popular music, even as they found her attempts at propaganda "laughable". [4]

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References

  1. Dear, Ian; Foot, M. R. D. (2001). "Axis Sally". The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198604464. OCLC   47356289.
  2. Lucas, Richard (2010). Axis Sally: the American voice of Nazi Germany. Philadelphia, Pa.: Casemate. ISBN   9781935149804. OCLC   748408055.
  3. 1 2 Crofton, Ian (2009). Traitors & Turncoats: Twenty Tales of Treason from Benedict Arnold to Ezra Pound . London: Quercus. pp.  131. ISBN   9781848660113. OCLC   298185611.
  4. 1 2 Lucas, Richard (2010). "With a sweet kiss from Sally: fantasy and reality collided when Allied investigators hunted down the seductive Nazi broadcaster known to GIs as Axis Sally". World War II. 24 (5): 48 via Gale Academic OneFile.
  5. Wireless (8 June 1945). "Americans Seize Axis Sally in Italy". New York Times. p. 9. ProQuest   107273858.