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092 _aHARNACK- M.
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049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aDonner, Rebecca,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAll the frequent troubles of our days :
_bthe true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler /
_cRebecca Donner.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bLittle, Brown and Company,
_c2021.
264 4 _c©2021
300 _axiv, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 487-544) and index.
520 _aPart biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
520 _aMildred 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 with a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. 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 she was sentenced 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. Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to reconstruct the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. --
_cAdapted from dust jacket
600 1 0 _aHarnack-Fish, Mildred,
_d1902-1943.
650 0 _aAnti-Nazi movement
_zGermany
_zBerlin
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xUnderground movements
_zGermany
_zBerlin.
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610 2 0 _aRote Kapelle (Resistance group)
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650 0 _aEspionage
_zGermany
_zBerlin
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_9134698
650 0 _aExecutions and executioners
_zGermany
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAmericans
_zGermany
_vBiography.
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