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:

• Mildred Gillars, a German American who broadcast for Nazi Germany. She was "the first woman in US history to be convicted of treason" by the United States and following her arrest in Berlin, "on 8 March 1949 was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment."

• Rita Zucca, an Italian American who broadcast for Fascist Italy.

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".

See also

• Lord Haw-Haw

• Tokyo Rose

• Constance Drexel

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   CroftonIanVia Internet Archive2010https://archive.org/details/traitorsturncoat0000crof/page/130/mode/2up?q=%22Axis+sally%22&view=theaterregistration131Penguin978-1-84866-011-3Kahle/Austin FoundationKahle/Austin Foundation

   
   
   DearIanFootMichael Richard DaniellDear & Foot,1995971995Via Internet Archive1995https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000unse_j9s1/page/96/mode/2up?q=%22axis+sally%22&view=theaterregistration97Oxford University Press978-0-19-866225-9South San Francisco Public LibrarySouth San Francisco Public Library 978-0-1921-4168-20-1921-4168-6; 978-0-1986-6225-90-1986-6225-4
   DearIanFootM. R. D.Dear & Foot,2001762001Via Internet Archive2001https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000unse_y4p2/page/76/mode/2up?q=%22axis+sally%22&view=theaterregistration76Oxford University Press, UK978-0-19-860446-4Cynthiana, KentuckyCynthiana-Harrison County, KentuckyHarrison Public Library 978-0-1986-0446-40-1986-0446-7.

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