
Axis Sally’s Nazi Radio
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Women of America, Mildred Giller's Life
In 1944, the war is undeniably headed towards an Allied victory. On the eve of D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, Reich's radio airs a radio drama with Gillers in the leading role. She can read American magazines, which are otherwise banned, to get information for her broadcasts. And she's even given access to German intelligence so that she can taunt the soldiers in real time about what they're facing in battle. Some soldiers come to loathe this Axis sally. They call it Berlin bitch.
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