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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 1,528,813 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mildred Gillars is the 197th most popular extremist (down from 189th in 2019), the 6,854th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,918th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mildred Gillars ranks 197 out of 209Before her are Joseph Paul Franklin, Gary Gilmore, Édouard Vaillant, Zacarias Moussaoui, John Hinckley Jr., and Ahmed Jabari. After her are William Bonin, Francis Parker Yockey, Howard Marks, Abdul Quader Molla, Ramzi Yousef, and Robert Pickton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mildred Gillars ranks 222Before her are Pierre Braine, Mikel Koliqi, Elizabeth Goudge, Erna Berger, Hermann Kesten, and William Stevenson. After her are Devdas Gandhi, William Haines, Colin Clive, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Alfredo Dinale, and Ludovico Bidoglio. Among people deceased in 1988, Mildred Gillars ranks 162Before her are Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Colleen Moore, Louise Nevelson, Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Shōhei Ōoka, and William McMahon. After her are Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Axel Grönberg, Nando González, Roger Hargreaves, Jaú, and Eric A. Havelock.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mildred Gillars ranks 6,854 out of 18,182Before her are Alan Hovhaness (1911), Stephen Hunter (1946), Randy Johnson (1963), Larry McMurtry (1936), William Stevenson (1900), and Norman Joseph Woodland (1921). After her are Theodore Freeman (1930), Charles R. Knight (1874), Gil Birmingham (1953), Mildred Davis (1901), Kenneth Lay (1942), and Bob Kiesel (1911).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Mildred Gillars ranks 71Before her are Robert Berdella (1949), Ross Ulbricht (1984), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Gary Gilmore (1940), and John Hinckley Jr. (1955). After her are William Bonin (1947), Francis Parker Yockey (1917), Anwar al-Awlaki (1971), Jared Fogle (1977), Amy Fisher (1974), and Richard B. Spencer (1978).