When her German-born fiancé was killed on the Eastern Front, she fell under the spell of Max Koischwitz, the program director in the USA Zone for RRG, who broadcast anti-Semitic and anti-British propaganda under the name Doctor Anders. Gillars and the married Koischwitz became lovers, and worked together on a show called Home Sweet Home, designed primarily to arouse feelings of homesickness in American troops fighting the Germans in North Africa. Thus Gillars became the original Axis Sally.
