After the war, Gillars was arrested by U.S. forces. She claimed that she didn’t support the Third Reich so much as she opposed the war and that the Nazis had intimidated her into fame. According to the New York Times, at her 1949 trial, Gillars “cut a theatrical figure in tight-fitting black dresses, long silver hair, and a deep tan. She had scarlet lips and nails.” Gillars was found guilty, becoming the first woman convicted of treason against the United States. She served twelve years in prison, was paroled, and moved back to Ohio, where she lived reclusively until her death in 1988.3
