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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mildred Gillars has received more than 1,632,965 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mildred Gillars is the 225th most popular extremist (down from 197th in 2019), the 6,907th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,840th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mildred Gillars ranks 225 out of 283. Before her are Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gary Gilmore, Robert Berdella, John List, Amparo Poch y Gascón, and John Christie. After her are Mikhail Popkov, Marvin Heemeyer, Donato Bilancia, John Hinckley Jr., Édouard Vaillant, and Warren Jeffs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mildred Gillars ranks 227. Before her are Alan Helffrich, Ludovico Bidoglio, Zinaida Aksentyeva, Hélène Prévost, Józef Kowalski, and Carlos Raúl Villanueva. After her are William Stevenson, István Fekete, Richard Hughes, Marta Abba, Pierre Braine, and Konrad Granström. Among people deceased in 1988, Mildred Gillars ranks 180. Before her are Kwon Ki-ok, William McMahon, Memphis Slim, Solomon, Alan Paton, and Liang Shuming. After her are Victorio Unamuno, Marta Abba, Alfred Kelbassa, Jan Brzák-Felix, Bibi Torriani, and María Teresa León.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mildred Gillars ranks 6,907 out of 20,380. Before her are Mike Larrabee (1933), Paula Fox (1923), Edgar Winter (1946), Brenda Song (1988), Michael Learned (1939), and Curtis Fuller (1934). After her are Burt Rutan (1943), John Romita Sr. (1930), John F. Reynolds (1820), Joe Sample (1939), Marie Doro (1882), and Bob Weinstein (1954).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Mildred Gillars ranks 77. Before her are William Bonin (1947), Ottis Toole (1947), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Gary Gilmore (1940), Robert Berdella (1949), and John List (1925). After her are Marvin Heemeyer (1951), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Warren Jeffs (1955), Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Francis Parker Yockey (1917), and Bobby Joe Long (1953).

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