Foreign News: Swedish Nightingale

We Swedish girls are not so cold as you Spaniards may think, I am burning with desire to teach the Spaniards how Nordic women can love.

This incendiary message was broadcast

from Berlin to hot-blooded Spain by dazzling, blonde Brita Brager. It had a coldblooded purpose: to persuade Spaniards that signing up for work in German munitions plants would be a short cut to a life of opulent lechery.

Last week Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' "Girl with the Sex-Appeal Voice" turned up in Stockholm. Brita Brager, the 23-year-old daughter of a Swedish naval attache, had been one of the stars of the Propaganda Ministry's...

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