Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany (44 page)

MIDGE: Now, Fritz, listen. You know you asked my permission to say something over the mike tonight, but if you’re going to talk about me all the time.

FRITZ: But I really do think the boys ought to know something about you. Now, listen boys, I’ll be perfectly objective. I’ll give you a description of your girl in our service, a description that sounds like a passport: Color of hair, color of eyes, size, weight, place of birth.

MIDGE: And no birthmark? Well, I think we’d better let those go.

FRED: What else is on a passport?

MIDGE: Well, something about age. You’d leave that out, wouldn’t you?

FRITZ: Well, with that schoolgirl complexion you couldn’t conceal the recent date of your birth anyway.

FRED: With the compliments of Palmolive soap.

MIDGE: No, I’m not keeping anything back on you, Fritz. Well, you know, I think you’ve been drinking whiskey, or gin or something.

FRITZ: Honest, Midge, I haven’t been drinking for ages. There just isn’t enough to drink now to get inspiration. You know that as well as I. Inspiration comes from your presence.

MIDGE: Oh, drink to me only with thine eyes!

MIDGE AT THE MIKE

July 27, 1943

“Good evening, women of America. This is Midge speaking. As you know, as time goes on, I think of you more and more. I can’t seem to get you out of my head, you women in America, waiting for the one you love, waiting and weeping in the secrecy of your own room, thinking of the husband, son or brother who is being sacrificed by Franklin D. Roosevelt – perishing on the fringes of Europe.

Perishing, losing their lives. At best, coming back home crippled – useless for the rest of their lives. For whom? - For Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill and their Jewish cohorts.

First of all, I’d like to take the British angle of the subject tonight. I’ve got a very nice, interesting article here by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt herself. This appeared in the American Collier’s magazine, February 27, 1943. I’ll even give you the page. Its page 18 – you can check on it yourself. And it says as follows – this is by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. I don’t like her myself, girls. She’s no friend of mine for allowing your husbands, fathers, sons and brothers to perish on the fringes of Europe for Mr. Roosevelt. So I suppose you have a certain amount of sympathy for Eleanor. Well, this is what she said on the 27
^th
of February, 1943 on page 18 of Collier’s Magazine.

‘While we have a few people whose conditions tie them closely to Britain, we have a considerable number who are critical of the British people and who find their mannerism and the way they talk and act not only arrogant but highly objectionable.’

I repeat that: ‘not only arrogant but highly objectionable’…. Who are these people? All of them of America who help these people – your sons, fathers, brothers and husbands are perishing on the fringes of Europe. And yet, the British are not only arrogant but highly objectionable, according to Eleanor Roosevelt. It’s interesting, isn’t it? Oh, I find it highly interesting, I must say….

‘The British government is inferior and the British are wily and see only the good of the Empire. The British have conquered many countries and while it is acknowledged that they colonize very well, it is also accepted that the rule has meant the exploitation of the conquered areas rather than development for the sake of the conquered people. This gives us the opportunity to point with pride to the attractive achievements of the United States in their colonial possessions. Consequently, the average American has developed a dislike for Britain.’

Well, that was said to you by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. If I had such a dislike for a country certainly I wouldn’t sacrifice those I love most of all for their interest. Would you, girls? I’m sure you wouldn’t if you thought it over before. But it all came overnight and somehow you trusted Franklin D. Roosevelt when he said to you that no American boy will be sacrificed on foreign battlefields. And it all then came so suddenly before you knew what was happening. I’m sure that’s the way it was.

Well, women in America, thousands and thousands of your men now going from French North Africa via Sicily to Europe are on their last roundup.
(Music: The Last Roundup)

Do you know, women of America, since I’m over here in Europe I think I’ve got a better perspective than you have. I come in touch with your men and also with some great German officers. It is very interesting. I’m sure you would like to hear this little story – a few evenings ago, I was at a party where there was a German war correspondent and he told me about a combat experience over in French South Africa where your men and the Germans were engaged in a fierce battle. Afterwards, he came to a sort of field hospital. It was rather makeshift, of course, and lying in this field hospital there was an American officer and he decided he’d like to have a little chat with him and went up to the bed and sat down and they conversed for a little while. Then, the American officer opened up his heart, and told him just how he felt when he got over to French North Africa and first entered into this fierce combat. He’d been told, of course, when leaving America that he’d find no resistance on the part of the German soldiers, that the Germans were tired – tired of battle – that they’d give no resistance. It would be a walk away for the American soldier, that’s what he said.

They gave all they had and still couldn’t drive the Germans back and then (unintelligible) most of all in the world was killed in action. His pal standing next to him and saw him depart from this life and he said ‘In that moment, I hated the Germans more than I had ever hated them in all my life.’ They’d taken the life of five pals, and he went on and all the intensity and fierceness he had in his being and then he was wounded. He became unconscious. It was much later that he regained consciousness and found himself, as I said, in this makeshift field hospital. And the quote sentence which made an impression upon his dazed was the following (in German, but he could understand German, having been in Germany himself sometime before the war – if I’m not mistaken during the Olympic Games. And he heard this German boy say to the doctor ‘No, take care of him first. He needs it much more than I.’ - a thought of what a German soldier said to the doctor in charge: ‘Take care of the American soldier; he’s wounded worse than I am.” Then, the German doctor came over then to the cot of the American officer and said to him, ‘Well, old fellow, let’s see what we can do for you.’ And at that moment, he heard his own language spoken to him by a man who showed sympathy for him. All of a sudden, he said to himself, ‘Why, why, why is Germany and America against each other.’

Well women, I think I have to leave you with that. I’m sorry the time is so short. Why? I’ll tell you – for the Jews. The Jews are in this war – have got us into this war – for an ideal, not for the love of humanity, but for money. They had no feeble concern for America and no feeling for the sons of the Whippoorwill, for the beautiful maple trees in summer – all of these things which are America. No, the Jews are sending our men over to Europe to fight so that their money bags will get filled. Well women, I’m sorry I haven’t got time for you, but I hope this little story by an American officer to the German officer will be an eye opener for you.

HOME SWEET HOME

September 19, 1943

While you are over in French North Africa fighting for Franklin D. Roosevelt and all his Jewish cohorts, I do hope that way back in your hometown nobody will be making eyes at honey.

MIDGE AT THE MIKE

October 5, 1943

”You know, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised you that none of your boys would be sacrificed on foreign battlefields, didn’t he? Well, your president did not keep his word. And I remember at the beginning of the war, how the upper circles, we might say, in England and America just laughed to scorn the idea that Germany, for example, at the beginning of the war, got ration cards. Sometimes we remember that, at the very beginning, everyone got his usual quantities of soap, and butter and eggs and sugar and cream and so on and so on. Everything was rationed beautifully, and England and American threw up their arms and laughed and said: ‘Well, that’s the downfall of Germany already.’

Quite the contrary, you see now in Germany, we’re getting extra butter rations. You probably heard the speech, last week, in which the harvest was discussed – such a marvellous wheat harvest – and so much food. We’re going to have plenty of butter and plenty of bread and even more meat.

Well, you see, Germany has rationed the food right from the very beginning, and so has guaranteed a better food situation for all of the Germans and all of the foreigners who are now in Germany for the duration of the war. It’s not going to be a repetition of the state of affairs that the German people had to endure from 1914 to 1918. I think in the last year of the last war, it was pretty sad. I’ve heard that from many sources.

My dear listeners in America, that’s not happening in this war. And I’ve even heard that in America, you’re having some difficulty now with your rationing. You’ve got your ration books already; well, you’re getting them rather late. In the meantime, all of the Jews they have confiscated the lovely things which you have in time over in America, your Heinz 57 Varieties and such things. So between the Black Market and the (
unintelligible
), you have a much worse time than the people in Germany.

Mark my words! I’m living here; I have been living here ever since before the war and I know how beautifully everything is regulated; as if you need a new pair of shoes, you get a new pair of shoes and you don’t have to swindle about it or tell any silly stories, you simply get anything that you need, but everything is honest and everything is under control and checked on.

This you have not yet had in America and I doubt that you’ll ever be able to do it, with the flair for organization which the Germans always have had and always will have. Be careful, Gentile women in America, that the Jews don’t hoard all the things now, so that in a year or two, you really will be feeling the pangs of hunger. I told you before it’s my firm conviction that, in reality, this is no war between Germany and America, in that sense of the word, but a war between the Jews and the Gentiles.”

(Source: Transcript of Shortwave Broadcast “Comment”, October 5, 1943, FBI HQ Axis Sally files. College Park MD: NARA.)