Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally)

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Mildred Gillars
 

Mildred Elizabeth Gillars (November 29, 1900 – June 25, 1988), nicknamed "Axis Sally" along with Rita Zucca, was an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II. She was convicted of treason by the United States in 1949 following her capture in post-war Berlin.
Early life

Born Mildred Elizabeth Sisk in Portland, Maine, she took the surname Gillars in 1911 after her mother remarried.[1][2] At 16, she moved to Conneaut, Ohio, with her family.[2] In 1918 she enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan University to study dramatic arts but left before graduating.[1]

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[TomSea]

The thread calls for some pictures.

[TomSea]

It's interesting that she went to college in the 1910s. I guess, any school called "Wesleyan" will tend to be a religious school.

[mountaineer]

It's interesting that she went to college in the 1910s. I guess, any school called "Wesleyan" will tend to be a religious school.

Yes, a small Methodist college in mid-Ohio, probably more "religious" back then than now.