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Mildred Elizabeth Gillars (née Sisk; November 29, 1900 – June 25, 1988) [1] was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate Axis propaganda during World War II. Following her capture in post-war Berlin , Gillars became the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States. [ 2 ]
Al Pacino as James Laughlin, an attorney who represented Gillars after she was put on trial for treason; Meadow Williams as Mildred Gillars; Swen Temmel as Billy Owen; Thomas Kretschmann as Joseph Goebbels; Mitch Pileggi as John Kelley, the prosecutor at Gillars's trial; Lala Kent as Elva; Carsten Norgaard as Max Otto Koischwitz; Drew Taylor as ...
Mildred Gillars, a German American who broadcast for Nazi Germany. [1] [2] She was "the first woman in US history to be convicted of treason" [3] by the United States and following her arrest in Berlin, "on 8 March 1949 was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment." [3] Rita Zucca, an Italian American who broadcast for Fascist Italy. [4] [5]
In 1981’s “Lili Marleen,” directed by German provocateur R.W. Fassbinder, the titular song is repeatedly played to an imprisoned man in an effort to break his spirit. In “American Traitor ...
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As the Allied invasion of Italy progressed, the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini decided to try to emulate the German radio's Axis Sally broadcasts of Mildred Gillars. In the summer of 1943, the Italian national radio network in Rome hired the 30-year-old Zucca with this aim in mind, in spite of her losing a typing job in 1942 for copying ...
Joseph P. Kennedy's mistress Janet Fontaine gives intriguing details about her nine-year affair with one of the ... she was 24 and he was 60. Joe had already been married to his wife, Rose, for 34 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945) "Goebbels" redirects here. For other uses, see Goebbels (disambiguation). Reichsleiter Joseph Goebbels Goebbels in 1933 Chancellor of Germany In office 30 April – 1 May 1945 President Karl Dönitz Preceded by Adolf Hitler Succeeded ...