Pearl Vardon

Pearl Joyce Vardon (5 April 1915 in Jersey, Channel Islands – November 2011) was a British broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during World War II.

She began a relationship with a Wehrmacht officer, Oberleutnant Siegfried Schwatlo, and when he was posted to Germany in 1944 she decided to go with him.

She introduced music and programmes such as Ladies First which criticised the USA and praised Germany's social security system, and Matters of Moment which gave news from a German perspective.

[1] More significantly, in For the Forces and their Kin, she read out letters written by British POWs for their families back home.

[2] In mid 1944 she was evacuated to Berlin and in October 1944 she was working at Apen in Lower Saxony until the Red Army drew close on the advancing Eastern Front.