Evening star., 1949-02-28

and learned of the death of Prof
KoiSchWitZ, she testified.
Il had a feeling something had
happened, that's why called, y
she testified
When I asked for Prof Koisch-
witz I knew l would never hear
his voice again"
She said she bribed passage on
a train out of Holland with gifts
of coffee to a railroad conductor
/ and reached Berlin in time for
\ Prof. Koischwitz's funeral. The
funeral was attended, she said.
only by Prof. Koischwitz' three
children, herself and Werner
Plack. representative of the Ger
man Foreign Office VINO has tes-
tilted against her here.
Bomb Killed Teachers Wife.
: Prof. Koischwitz' wife had been
killed a year earlier when bomb
struck the Berlin hospital in which
she was patient.
Miss Gillars said that before
she left Paris she had gone to a
bookshop and bought volume
of the odes of Horace in Latin,
which she intended TO give to
Prof. KoischWitz as a Christmas
present.
Miss Gillars was recalled to the
stand to answer charges made
against her by former soldier
prosecution witnesses who de-
clared they had been interviewed
by her when she was serving the
NaziS during the war. The former
CTS were Michael Evanick of New
York. who was a paratrooper, and
Eugene Mccarthy of Chicago, a
veteran of the 1st Ranger Bat
talon.
Later she sought to show that
another feminine broadcaSter for
the Nazi radio used the name Axis
Sally on her programs, but was
blocked by Government objections
that the matter was irrelevant.
Miss Gillars denied that she had
ever introduced herself to any
American prisoner of war as Axis
Sally.
Denies Soldiers Story.
Chief Defense Counsel James j.
Laughlin read excerpts from the
record of testimony offered by Mr..
Evanick.
You will recall that Evanick
said when he first met you, you
were seated on a cot and you were
partially exposed" Mr.. Laughlin
said. rs that true?"
Mr.. Laughlin, it certainly is
not" Miss Gillars responded in
dignantly.
Il had exactly one summer
dress at that time. 1t had white
pleated skirt. I know I would
not have been seated on cot,
because 1 did not want to get it
soiled. I was standing the whole
time, and I'm sure every wom-
an -"
Judge Curran and Chief Prose
cutor John M. Kelley, jr.. shouted
down Miss Gillars, and the judge
cautioned her to confine her re-
marks to answers to questions and
not to engage in a discourse.
Recalls Incident.
! Mr.. Mccarthy had testified that
Miss Gillars was driven from the
prison camp at Hammerstein by
irate American prisoners who
called her a traitor, and that she
threatened them as she left. She
interviewed American soldiers after
they were captured by the Ger
mans.
Miss Gillars said no threats were
made at Hammerstein, but that
shell-shocked soldier did create an
unpleasant incident.
"At the beginning everything
was friendly" she said. land then
one of the boys began screaming.
They said he had suffered a lot
during the war and was not re-
sponSible"
! Mentions Unpleasant Things"
( Then nothing unusual hap
pened," MI. Laughlin said. There
were no threats made to you or
by you"
The witness responded:
"Oh, Mr.. Laughlin, I thought
you understood the implication
the unpleasant things that hap
pened afterWard we're the result
of the outburst of this one boy. "
Mr. Laughlin shifted his line of
questioning. He asked Miss Gill
lars what she knew about the
existence of another Axis Sally in
the German radio propaganda
service.
! Miss G;llars said that in 1943
Prof. Otto KoischWitZ, whom she
has described as the man she
loved, brought to her attention
the fact that a woman announcer
for the German radio in Rome was
using the name of Axis Sally.
United to Our knowledge.
Mr.. Kelley objected to this and
Judge Curran told the witness she
could testify only about things
that she knew of her own knoWl-
edge and could not tell about what
she had heard OF been told.
Miss Gillars turned impatiently
to the judge and said:
, Well, how can I know about
this of my own knowledge when l
was not in Rome MYSELF"
Mr.. Laughlin asked if she
caused an investigation to be made
into the reported existance of an
other Axis Sally. and she re-
sponded affirmatively. Mr.. Kelley
blocked further testimony along