num_pages: 514
description: This tells of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a resistance group, Mildred &amp; her husband, Arvid Harnack, assisted in the escape of Jews &amp; political dissidents, providing economic &amp; military intelligence to both Washington &amp; Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured &amp; tried 80 members of the group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on 2/16/43, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--the only American woman executed as an underground conspirator. Yet as WWII ended &amp; the Cold War began, her courage, idealism &amp; self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America.PrefacePlötzenseeTransfigurationChum Nonconformist A radical marriage Scholar Comrade Pilgrim Hostess Literary figureStranger Resister Spy? Prey The woman in cell 25Stalingrad's scapegoatEpiloguePostscriptGlossary &amp; AbbreviationsNotesAuthors ConsultedBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex
language: English
title: Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
titlecomplete: Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
genres: Biography, History, World War II, American History, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 74
publisher: Oxford University Press (NY et al.)