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Donner, Rebecca.
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Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943.
Rote Kapelle (Resistance group)
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Germany -- Berlin.
Espionage -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Americans -- Germany -- Biography.
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Donner, Rebecca.
Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943.
Rote Kapelle (Resistance group)
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Germany -- Berlin.
Espionage -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Americans -- Germany -- Biography.
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All
the
frequent
troubles
of
our
days
: the
true
story
of the
American
woman
at the
heart
of the
German
resistance
to
Hitler
/ Rebecca Donner.
by
Donner, Rebecca.
Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Call #:
940.5343 D686a
Subjects
Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943.
Rote Kapelle (
Resistance
group)
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Germany -- Berlin.
Espionage -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Americans -- Germany -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780316561693 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 560 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., portraits ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [487]-544) and index.
Summary:
"The
true
account of the extraordinary life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the
American
leader of one of the largest underground
resistance
groups in Germany during WWII. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment--a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground
resistance
group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the
resistance
, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced
Hitler
and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but
Hitler
overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only
American
in the leadership of the
German
resistance
, yet her remarkable
story
has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective
story
, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors' testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic
story
, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic
woman
nearly erased by history."--From publisher.
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