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Mildred Gillars

1900 - 1988

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Mildred Elizabeth Gillars (née Sisk; November 29, 1900 – June 25, 1988) was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate 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. In March 1949, she was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment. Gillars was paroled in 1961. Along with Rita Zucca she was nicknamed "Axis Sally". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mildred Gillars is the 222nd most popular extremist (up from 225th in 2019), the 6,850th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,906th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mildred Gillars ranks 222 out of 283Before her are Yoo Young-chul, Robert Berdella, William Bonin, Amparo Poch y Gascón, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, and Mikhail Popkov. After her are Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, Abdullah Çatlı, Alexander Pichushkin, Frank James, Donato Bilancia, and Christopher Scarver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mildred Gillars ranks 220Before her are Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Karel Teige, Pedro Arispe, Manuel Plaza, Natalio Perinetti, and Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia. After her are Marie Bell, Elizabeth Goudge, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Christian Matras, Clarence Pinkston, and Itzik Feffer. Among people deceased in 1988, Mildred Gillars ranks 169Before her are Andrei Glanzmann, Brigitte Horney, Alan Paton, Nikolay Makarov, Francisco Rodrigues, and Anatoly Levchenko. After her are Margaret Mee, Jenő Vincze, Aleksei Losev, Rudolf Gramlich, Christian Matras, and Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mildred Gillars ranks 6,852 out of 20,380Before her are George Dole (1885), Carol Morris (1936), Kevin S. Bright (1954), Buddy Ebsen (1908), Linda Cardellini (1975), and Julia Ward Howe (1819). After her are Richard Helms (1913), Bellamy Young (1970), Jerry Buss (1933), Joseph Hooker (1814), John Baldessari (1931), and Geraldine Ferraro (1935).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Mildred Gillars ranks 77Before her are Robert Ford (1862), Stanley Williams (1953), Stand Watie (1806), Richard Speck (1941), Robert Berdella (1949), and William Bonin (1947). After her are Frank James (1843), Christopher Scarver (1969), Ottis Toole (1947), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Warren Jeffs (1955), and Joseph Paul Franklin (1950).