Max Otto Koischwitz. Propagandistická rozhlasová hra.
Účinkují Axis Sally (= Mildred Gillars) a další.
Natočeno 1944. Premiéra 11. 5. 1944.
Lit.: Šivák, Kamil: Zrádcovská proměna americké herečky Mildred Gillars v nacistickou propagátorku Axis Sally. In web Lifee.cz, 15. 11. 2023 (článek). – Cit.: Cit.: (…) Jejím vrcholným dílem však byla rozhlasová hra Vision of Invasion, kde si zahrála matku z Ohia, které se zdálo, že její syn zemřel brutální smrtí na lodi v Lamanšském průlivu při pokusu o invazi do Němci okupované Francie. To vlastně děsivě předznamenalo události dne D, k nimž došlo o necelý měsíc později. Je možné, že byla zasvěcena do interních záležitostí Třetí říše? (…)
Lit.: Dutkin, Howard L.: Axis Sally Signs Off. In web Washington Post, b. d. (článek). – Cit.: (…) The count in the indictment upon which Miss Mildred E. Gillars was found guilty of treason was based on a German radio broadcast entitled „Vision of Invasion.“
This radio play was broadcast the night of May 11, 1944, 25 days before D-Day. In it Miss Gillars, whose nickname was „Axis Sally,“ spoke in the role of an American housewife named Evelyn.
Evelyn and Elmer, her husband, were represented as talking in their American home while their son Allan was aboard an invasion boat on D-Day.
Elmer was trying to overcome the gloomy forebodings of Evelyn, who said: „But everybody says the invasion is suicide. The simplest person knows that. Between 70 and 90 percent of the boys will be killed or crippled for the rest of their lives.“
At another point Evelyn said to Elmer: „The whole world, waiting and watching for hundreds of thousands of young men to be slaughtered on the beaches of Europe and you — you laugh!“ …
The broadcast closed with the background sound of church bells and Evelyn asking: „Why are those church bells ringing?“ And another woman responding, „The dead bells of Europe’s bombed cathedrals are tolling the death knell of America’s youth.“ (….)