Jane Anderson (journalist)

Marilyn Waring (1917)

Jane Anderson (born January 6, 1888 in Atlanta , Georgia , † after 1945; actually Foster Anderson , also " Lady Haw Haw ") was an American journalist, author and radio propagandist for Großdeutscher Rundfunk .

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Anderson grew up in Arizona and her father, Robert M. "Red" Anderson, was a close friend of Buffalo Bill's . After her mother, Ellen Luckie, died (after 1903), she lived with her grandparents in Demorest, Georgia. She attended until 1904 the Piedmont Academy in Monticello, Georgia, from which she was expelled and later under the name Jane Foss Anderson a college in Texas . She lived in New York City from 1909 to 1915 and successfully wrote short stories, 14 of which appeared in national magazines between 1910 and 1913. She married the composer Deems Taylor in 1910 , but soon divorced.

In 1915 Anderson moved to England, was part of high society and a member of literary circles. As Deems Taylor she became a well-known war correspondent for English (London Daily Mail , Daily Express ) and American newspapers and wrote a book on war technology with Gordon Bruce . Anderson was considered the lover of Joseph Conrad and HG Wells and was friends with Rebecca West .

She married the Spaniard Marques Alvarez de Cienfuegos and was a correspondent in the Spanish Civil War in 1938 . Detained six weeks in Madrid by communists on charges of espionage for Francisco Franco , they were released following intervention by the US government. Presumably she was tortured; their experiences have been linked to their turn to fascism .

propaganda

Starting in February 1942, Jane Anderson sent propaganda to America four times a week as " The Georgia Peach " ( called " Lady Haw Haw " by the British ) on the German short-wave transmitter Zeesen . TIME published an example in 1942:

" The American brain trust, foreign and 'Land of old Glory' dominant, is nothing but an offshoot of the international secret superstate, the equally Soviet Russia, the plutocratic England and Roosevelt's America in the hollow hybrid holding hand ... Roosevelt a marching band pulled out of his pocket and a concentration camp out of the skirts of the Brain Trust ... Roosevelt has declared war with Churchill on Japan ... so that the American people go to war to save Stalin and the international bankers who are one and the same ... (Roosevelt) supports communist China; he presents the wealth of the American nation to Stalin as a footstool, the most powerful murderer in modern history ... "

In the spring of 1942 she described a luxurious excursion to a Berlin cocktail bar, which the Counter Propaganda ( COI ) translated and in turn sent to Germany. Anderson was then switched off.

On July 26, 1943, she was charged with treason in the USA along with Frederick W. Kaltenbach , Robert Best , Ezra Pound , Douglas Chandler , Edward Leo Delaney, Constance Drexel and Max Otto Koischwitz . Anderson was never caught, presumably living in Franco's post-war Spain until her death.

See also

• Mildred Gillars

literature

• Gordon Bruce: Flying, Submarining and Mine Sweeping . Causton, London 1916 (with Jane Anderson)
• John Carver Edwards: Berlin Calling. American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich . Praeger, New York 1991, ISBN 0-275-93905-7
• Jeffrey Meyers: Joseph Conrad . A biography . Scribner, New York 1991, ISBN 0-684-19230-6 (Meyers did extensive research on new material on Jane Anderson.)
• George Seldes : Witness to a Century. Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious and the Three SOBs . Ballantine Books, New York 1987, ISBN 0-345-35329-3

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1. ↑ George Seldes. Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious and the Three SOBs. NY: Ballantine Books, 1987, p. 54
2. ↑ http://www.piedmont.edu/news/jan_04/jane_anderson.html
3. ↑ Time. Monday Jan. 19, 1942
4. ↑ Time . Monday, Apr. 6, 1942