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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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-544) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All the frequent troubles of our days

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1261060080

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Donner

Sub title

the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler

Summary

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 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. --, Adapted from dust jacket

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