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Axis Sally

by Carlo-C-Gomez

Red letter days and friendly fire. Will I ever go home? Your voice over the airwaves soothes. But the things you say cut like teeth, sharp and vile. You visit the hospitals, shake down the morgues. The batting of your eyelashes, a ruse to your construction: You're a steam shovel, girl. Digging for Nazis at the center of the Earth.
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56 / M / The Exclusion Zone
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Written by
Carlo-C-Gomez
56 / M / The Exclusion Zone
Published
Oct 17, 2020
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1m
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Mildred Elizabeth Gillars, nicknamed "Axis Sally" along with Rita Zucca, was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during World War II. Following her capture in post-war Berlin, she became the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States.

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#deception#ww2#history#radio#broadcast#moral#propaganda#germany#war
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