Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany by Richard Lucas

Author:Richard Lucas [Lucas, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Bisac Code 1: BIO022000
ISBN: 9781935149439
Amazon: 1935149431
Barnesnoble: 1935149431
Publisher: Casemate Pub
Published: 2010-10-18T23:00:00+00:00

Assistant Attorney General Caudle, who turned down the request, did it with a grin. “We’re not taking Sally off your hands,” he said, “because among other things I’d have Pearson and Winchell around my neck.”336

After months of arrest, release and then re-arrest, the Army could not hold Axis Sally indefinitely. The rank and file soldier who enjoyed her music from afar could not give eyewitness testimony to her treachery. Men who saw Axis Sally at work in the flesh were required—the GIs that Mildred sought to help by broadcasting messages to their loved ones as they lingered in a prison camp. Caudle needed the few who were disgusted to see an American woman in league with the enemy that killed and maimed their comrades.

Pearson and Winchell’s campaign to see Axis Sally behind bars paid off. Within days of Drew Pearson’s January 26 appeal, the columnist received handwritten letters from two former American prisoners of war. Albert J. Lawlor of Stony Brook, NY, had been held in Stalag VII A near Furstenberg on the Oder between February 1943 and April 1945. Lawlor described his encounter with Axis Sally:

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