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Jane Anderson (journalist)

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She was removed from her position as a commentator after material in her March 6, 1942, broadcast was successfully used by U.S. counterpropaganda when she revealed elite Germans were still dining in luxury despite widespread food insecurity in Germany. She then appears to have been inactive until her
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Until March 6, 1942, she broadcast Nazi propaganda via short wave radio for the German State Radio's U.S. Zone, the Germans giving her the name "The Georgia Peach." Her radio program was broadcast two or four times weekly and each broadcast began and ended with the slogan "Always remember progressive
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It is true that she could be classified as a political commentator, although not a very effective one, but as she apparently stopped her broadcasting activities shortly after our entry into the war it does not appear worthwhile that further efforts be made to develop our case against her,
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Anderson began broadcasts from Berlin on April 14, 1941, and when Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, American citizens were repatriated from Germany although Anderson chose to stay there.
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assisted her return to the United States. Her experiences in Spain moved her political allegiance to the far right. She wrote and lectured on the Spanish Civil War to promote the
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When Germany surrendered in May 1945, Anderson hid out in various locations in Germany and Austria. Finally, on April 2, 1947, she was arrested in
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side, held as a fascist spy, and tortured. However, in October 1936, Anderson's release was secured by the intervention of U.S. Secretary of State
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Anderson was released from custody in Salzburg in early December 1947. She then went to live with her husband at
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dropped all charges for lack of evidence. From a United States Government Office memorandum dated June 14, 1946:
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return to her propaganda work in 1944, when she made a few broadcasts reporting the brutality of the
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governments. She specialized in interviews, one being with her co-worker, the British traitor
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in September 1915 where she remained until 1918, writing articles and reports for the London
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A further factor was that Anderson had been a Spanish citizen by marriage since 1934.
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American-Spanish war correspondent, journalist, and writer (1888–1972)
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side. On September 13, 1936, she was captured and imprisoned by the
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in 1919. In 1922, she returned to Europe as a correspondent for the
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notwithstanding the fact that she was indicted for treason in 1943.
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Spanish Ministry of Propaganda, and came to the attention of the
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and listen to both sides of the story" while a band played
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and ran "exposés" of the "communist domination" of the
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in 1909, where she lived until 1915. There she married
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Prisoners and detainees of the United States military
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She lived with her grandparents in the small town of
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Atlanta, Georgia
Madrid, Spain
Nazi propaganda
World War II
Buffalo Bill
Demorest, Georgia
Piedmont Academy
Kidd-Key Women's School
Dallas
New York City
Deems Taylor
Europe
Daily Mail
shell shock
British trenches in France
Joseph Conrad
The Arrow of Gold
International News Service
Hearst Newspapers
Seville
Spain
Spanish Civil War
Nationalist
Republican
Cordell Hull
U.S. State Department
Nationalist
Francisco Franco
Falangist

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