Mildred Gillars: Difference between revisions

'''Mildred Elizabeth Gillars''' ({{née|'''Sisk'''}}; November 29, 1900 – June 25, 1988)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mildred-Gillars|title=Mildred Gillars {{!}} American traitor|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=October 20, 2017|language=en|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026034057/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mildred-Gillars|url-status=live}}</ref> was an American broadcaster employed by [[Nazi Germany]] to disseminate [[Axis powers|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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/traitorsturncoat0000crof/page/131|title=Traitors & Turncoats: Twenty Tales of Treason from Benedict Arnold to Ezra Pound|last=Ian|first=Crofton|publisher=Quercus|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84866-011-3|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/traitorsturncoat0000crof/page/131 131]|oclc=298185611|url-access=registration}}</ref> In March 1949, she was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment.<ref name=":0" /> Gillars was paroled in 1961. Along with [[Rita Zucca]] she was nicknamed "[[Axis Sally]]".