World of War Crimes! · Jeremy Laylin

Ep 23A: Axis Sally & Tokyo Rose - the Video

·23 min·2 clips
She was found guilty on one count for speaking into a microphone concerning the loss of ships on a day in October 1944, the exact date unknown.
The host explores the contrasting stories of two WWII-era radio broadcasters: Iva Toguri D'Aquino, the Japanese-American woman wrongly convicted as 'Tokyo Rose,' and Mildred Sisk, the American who willingly became 'Axis Sally' for Nazi Germany. The episode examines their backgrounds, wartime actions, controversial trials, and post-war fates, highlighting questions of justice and propaganda.

As heard by us

Two Axis radio personalities become a compact wartime biography.

World of War Crimes centers on two radio personalities who aided the Axis during the war, and that framing gives the subject a smaller, stranger edge.

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Why you'd press play

Two radio personalities, two sharply different wartime paths.

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